by Alan Todd | Sep 4, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Every time I hear that old chestnut of a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I am left wondering. If beauty is that individual, can there ever be, not just an agreement, but a universal definition? There have been a number of philosophers who have...
by Alan Todd | Sep 2, 2025 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Recently I have seen any number of artists, particularly abstract artists, asking what titles they should put on their works. The original function of a title in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was to identify the work for sale purposes and was more often...
by Alan Todd | Sep 16, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
How many artists will tell you that they work by intuition? Quite a few. In the last hundred years or so it has become the go-to explanation for modernism and everything that followed. In essence it defies all explanation and attempts to explain intuition in...
by Alan Todd | Jan 7, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
Picasso wouldn’t be the only artist who has bemoaned the addictive need for audiences to look for meaning in a painting. It has become the be-all and end-all of appreciation or at least the first port of call for audiences to not only look but to believe that it is a...
