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Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

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In-demand Man

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Popular Ottawa artist Michael Harrington paints the meaning of man

by Marianne Ackerman
24.11.2011

As artist studios go, Michael Harrington’s is vintage man-cave. An arch between two yet-to-be-gentrified houses on an unfashionable Ottawa street leads into a weedy courtyard. At the back, a cinderblock building on its last legs. The windowless two-room suite on the second floor is crammed with guitars on stands, various packing crates, iffy furnishings, paint-splatted [...]

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ART

A Brush with Terror

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Montreal painter Marion Pennell uses own close call with terrorism as inspiration on the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11

by Jamie O'Meara
09.09.2011

Ten years ago, a Montreal artist learned, up close and very uncomfortably, that domestic terrorism comes in many forms. A month after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City, Washington, DC and Pennsylvania – on Oct. 12, 2001 – a firebomb exploded in the stairwell of Marion Pennell’s apartment building, one of nearly two [...]

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Somewhat Watery And Bland

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J.W. Waterhouse, MMFA

by Arthur Kaptainis
05.11.2009

J.W. Waterhouse? You mean, like, the investment firm? Or is that the crystal? It is a fair guess that fewer than five percent of the millions who recognize instantly the Lady of Shalott – the dreamy aquatic canvas that functions as the official highlight of the Waterhouse exhibition currently showing at the Montreal Museum of [...]

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EVENTS

The Art Of Making People Happy

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ROMERO BRITTO, CEDARS CANCER HEROES NIGHT

by Lori Callaghan
11.09.2009

Chagall, Warhol and Picasso are some of the names mentioned by critics when discussing the works of Romero Britto. His cubist, pop art style evokes a jubilant playfulness with its bright colours, simple lines and geometrical shapes. Dismissed by some as too commercial, his works are unapologetically optimistic and full of warmth. He arrives in [...]

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ART

Beauty In Chaos

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Eliane Smith, Centre St-Ambroise

by Sarah Fletcher
03.09.2009

“Do you know the world is beautiful?” reads the artist statement for Wilderness 2, at the Centre St-Ambroise where Canadian painter Eliane Smith presents her second show, a collection of 10 paintings. In a style Smith calls ‘Expressionist Nature’, the paintings capture the chaos and depth of nature.

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