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 | Feb 14, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Would have Van Gogh have been impressed? Hard to say. He might have raised an eyebrow in disbelief. Each day he headed off into the landscape, paint box and easel at the ready, canvas under his arm, to produce what would become the quintessence of Post-Impressionist...
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...
