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 | Sep 28, 2024 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Anselm Kieffer and I grew up in the same era in the wake of WW2 but while he was surrounded by the destruction of a nation, his identity and what it meant to be a German was under question. The old order had gone and no one knew what lay ahead. For my part, I...
by Alan Todd | Nov 28, 2023 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
In 1948 Picasso received a cable from America signed by Stuart Davis, Lipchitz and James Sweeney then head of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, asking that he be part of a protest against the attack on modern art by certain senators who considered such art...
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 | Dec 31, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
As an artist, one of the aspects of daily life for me is the ongoing concern with development. The expectation of all artists is that they move on. When I look at the likes of Scully, Rothko, de Kooning, Frankenthaler and any number of other artists I see a...
