📍Toronto, Canada
Hello dear reader!
Last Sunday I took a 2 hour drive with my local visual artists group to the BIG CITY (aka Toronto) to visit the Art Gallery of Ontario.
I don’t feel like I even made a dent in seeing the entire collection, but here are some of my favourite pieces that made my brain happy.
The Lady of Shalott! I adore Waterhouse’s literary lady paintings so I was so excited to finally see one in person.
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I love Mary’s clever self-portrait of herself painting her self portrait. I wonder if the other items in the room (the sculpture, the guitar, the books & papers) were also some of her interests?
Because impressionism. And pink. And flowers.
This one is painted entirely with small square brushstrokes. The more I look at this, the more cows I see.
Harris is one of the founding members of the Group of Seven landscape painters and he’s really managed to make Canadian winter look positively charming here. (It’s not).
How did I not know about Tissot? My favourite part of this painting is how he rendered those ribbons on the table! I can almost feel the silkiness.
I hope you enjoyed this mini tour
If you’re an art lover and find yourself in Toronto one day, I highly recommend going to the A.G.O. I’ll be going back one day too.
Alys
P.S. Hi I’m Alys, welcome to my little piece of the interwebs.
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