Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Art Gallery of Ontario

I ventured out to this gallery for the first time a few weeks ago.  I think I have been spoilt by the Art Galleries of the UK, both in terms of quality and price.  Whilst I do not mind paying to see works of art, I do mind to paying $25.  Included in this price was an exhibition of early Renaissance paintings from Florence (no photos due to ban).

All was not lost though, they have a few Impressionist paintings and others that I liked.

Here are a selection of the paintings that I enjoyed.  Apologies for the quality, I had to take them on my iPhone.

 Raoul Dufy – Hyeres Square, the Obelisk and the Bandstand

 Pierre Bonnard – Autumn Landscape

 Pierre Bonnard – Table Laid for Dessert

 Jan Van Goyen – Peasant Cottage

 Alfred Sisley – Saint-Mammes, Grey Weather

Pierre Auguste Renoir – The Seine at Chatou
 
 Claude Monet – Etretat L’Aiguille and the Porte d’Aval

 Alfred Sisley – Landscape near Moret

Claude Monet – Vetheuil in Summer
 
 Camille Pissarro – Poplars, Grey Weather, Eragny

Alfred Sisley – View of Marly-le-Roi: Sunlight
 
Marc Chagall – Over Vitebsk
 
Hendrick Andriessen – Still Life (Vanitas)
 
Aelbery Cuyp – View of Dordrecht
 
Jan Van Goyen – View of Rhenen
 
 Salomon Van Ruysdael – The Ferry Boat

 Cornelius Krieghoff – Village Scene in Winter

Franklin Carmichael – Cranberry Lake
 
 Franklin Carmichael – Houses in Servern Bridge

 A.J Casson – Mountain Ash (Rowanberries) 

 J.E.H MacDonald – Laurentian County, Winter

 Lawren S Harris - Houses, Richmond Street

 A.Y Jackson – Red Barn, Petite Riviere

 Lawren S Harris – Street Scene with Figures, Hamilton & In The Ward, Toronto

 Emily Carr - Gitwangak, Queen Charlotte Islands

 Cornelius Krieghoff - The Narrows on Lake St Charles

 Cornelius Krieghoff  - Sillery Cove, Quebec

 Cornelius Krieghoff – Clearing Land near the St Maurice River

 Cornelius Krieghoff – Council, Lorette Indians, Lake St.Charles Country

 Cornelius Krieghoff – Ginger, the Colonel’s Dog

 Cornelius Krieghoff – The Owlshead from Round Lake, Lake Memphremagog

 Kenneth Campbell Lochead – Dark Green Centre

 Alex Colville – Elm Tree at Horton Landing

 Jack Chambers – Meadow

 Stewart Westmacott – The Falls of Niagara Taken from the American Side

 Guido Molinari – Green-Red Serial Mutation

 Helen McNicoll – Interior

 Mary Hiester Reid – A Study in Greys

F McGillivray Knowles – A Breezy Day

As you can see, I was rather fond of Cornelius Krieghoff.  He was a member of the "Group of Seven".  

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Photos From Lake Ontario

Firstly, apologies for the lack of activity.  I have been very busy these past few months as I have emigrated to Canada.

Now that things have settled down I have found time to walk down to Lake Ontario with my camera.  Waterfront Trail is a series of paths that follow the shoreline of the Lake.  Sections 2 & 3 are where I am so today & yesterday I went walking. 

Whilst the weather was better on Saturday it was still not cold and both walks were nice scrolls, though my legs were glad to make it back to the sofa!

Here are some of the results from the walks.







The rest of my photos are available on my Flickr page here

Friday, 11 January 2013

Tate Modern

I've never really fancied this Gallery due to not being keen on what is deemed "modern art".  People like Hirst and Emin and suchlike produce nothing that I would class as art, therfore, this Gallery has been avoided on my visits to London.  Due to bad weather during my trip in December I was in need of more "indoor" activites so I thought I would give this place an hour or two, to help pass the time.  Whilst my opinion on the vast majority of "modern art" still stands, there were a few pieces that caught my eye and I thought I would share them here.  Apologies for some blurry captions, I used my phone to take these photos.

 Pino Pascali - Trap


 

Richard Long - Small White Pebble Circles



 Kishio Suga - Ren-Shiki-Tai



Henri Matisse - The Snail



Piet Mondrian - Composition C (NoIII) with Red, Yellow and Blue






Lee Krasner - Gothic Landscape
 


Barnett Newman - Moment



Claude Monet - Waterlillies



Rene Magritte - Man with a Newspaper


  
Tristram Hillier - Variation on the Form of an Anchor



To be perfectly honest I'm not sure what it was that drew me to these pieces (bar the Monet).  I think they are quite varied in appearance.  The only explanation I can think of it that they all are real things or that they have tructure to them (bar the Krasner) but even that painting has detail and is not just a mishmash of brushstrokes.
I hope you enjoy :-)