by Alan Todd | Jan 4, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
There is an assumption that you have to be mad to want to an artist and if you succeed then the evidence of madness is obvious. You either spend incomprehensible hours locked in the solitary confinement of a studio or fill gallery spaces with equally incomprehensible...
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...
