by Alan Todd | Dec 16, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion
It hadn’t occurred to me until I read an article about the slow demise of the baby boomer generation and a shift in the profile of art collectors, that I am part of that generation and all that it accomplished, not just artistically but as the motivating force behind...
by Alan Todd | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
When Picasso was messing about with African masks he believed in the magical power of objects – probably a throwback to his days in Catholic Spain as well as the mystique of bullfighting and its role in reinforcing the male ego. African nations have...
by Alan Todd | Sep 4, 2023 | 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...
by Alan Todd | May 5, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
There is a reality to being an artist today that seems to be at odds with public perception. One debated area is the employment status of the artist and the other, the provenance of the work. Just what is so precious about the hand of the artist that a work instantly...
by Alan Todd | Dec 22, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Perhaps it is a moot question or at least one without an answer, but what does it take to change the course of art history. Historians tell us that it took an assassination of random royalty in Sarajevo to trigger WW1 and an unexpected invasion of Poland to...
