by Alan Todd | Dec 9, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
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 as...
by Alan Todd | Nov 19, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the early 70s musicians Georgie Fame and Alan Price came together to produce an album entitled the Price of Fame. For five minutes they were well known, failed to destroy any hotel rooms and made the papers for all the right reasons. The music was less than...
by Alan Todd | Nov 7, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In reading about the American painter Agnes Martin, I came across one of the great axioms of abstraction. Never talk about where your idea came from and if necessary, invent a past that may or may not have existed. Certainly, never admit to health problems,...
by Alan Todd | Jan 28, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Even today, if you want to enter the National Portrait Gallery in London, you have to give up your rolled umbrella at the door…along with your muff, any parcels and selfie sticks. The suffragettes can’t be blamed for the latter but fears that women might hide...
by Alan Todd | Jan 12, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Once upon a time Picasso was one of the few artists everyone knew about or at least the one artist whose name everyone knew once you got past Da Vinci and Michaelangelo. A shrewd marketing campaign and regularly signing tablecloths to pay for a meal, all helped to...