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...
by Alan Todd | Dec 28, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In my ongoing reading of Marcel Proust I came across this assessment of artistic genius from the penultimate chapter of the Fugitive as interpreted by writer David Ellison. ‘The narrator hypothesises that all artists owe allegiance to a moral contract to which they...
by Alan Todd | May 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 2020 I embarked on a deliberate attempt to use time as an idea. Interestingly, the whole COVID scare came to embody much of what I was thinking about in terms of slowing down time. Suddenly people had more time than they knew what to do with and the lack of daily...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Over fifty years I have worked in sculpture, drawing, photography and theatre but always saw myself as a painter. In my teenage years it was all I wanted to do but firstly my school art teacher saw little in what I was doing and decried my use of colour and then in my...
