Urban Shocker
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Checked yesterday - the painting's perspective is from the bridge's first bay. Perhaps Kurelek stood on the wall when he took the reference photographs.
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LowPolygon
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do you have an image or link you can send along? i'd like to see it....
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Alas, no - you'll have to go to the AGO ... unless you have a copy of KURELEK'S VISION OF CANADA by the artist and Joan Murray, which I took along yesterday. He was quite true to his reference photographs, though I think he cheated a bit on the route of the DVP as it disappears to the south. He shows fewer trees in the valley and on the western slopes than there are now. The painting's also a record of construction, since it shows a few unfinished apartment buildings.
He chronicled the city in art. It would be interesting to add to the Then and Now thread, comparing his paintings of such places as The Beach and High Park with their current appearance.
He chronicled the city in art. It would be interesting to add to the Then and Now thread, comparing his paintings of such places as The Beach and High Park with their current appearance.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
i am planning to see the Keifer show this week at the AGO so i will check it out!
interesting to see how well some of those late Kurelek's depicting the city are doing at auction:
http://joyner.waddingtons.ca/show_oneitem/34360/1
here's an interesting article about the urban Toronto landscape in art:
http://joyner.waddingtons.ca/articles/canada-urban-landscape2009/
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
There was a nice Vello Hubel sketch ( was he still teaching at OCA when you were there? ) at the Sunday antique market a few weeks ago. I glanced at it, but it had sold when I returned ten minutes later. This, I think, is it:
http://ve.tpl.toronto.on.ca/TPM/970-3-6c.html
http://ve.tpl.toronto.on.ca/TPM/970-3-6c.html
LowPolygon
Senior Member
i think he had probably retired by the time i got there. its amazing to think his work can be picked up at a Sunday antique market. they seem to have very little resale value. another nice good sized sketch of his, of the same area, came up at auction in January, with an extremely low estimate...
a few other things from the same auction. be nice to have a painting of the 50's version of the St. Charles!
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Perhaps it was that one - I only took a quick look.
Maybe Keifer will turn his hand to set design - I'd love to see what he could do with Aida or theRing.
Maybe Keifer will turn his hand to set design - I'd love to see what he could do with Aida or theRing.
LowPolygon
Senior Member
yes The Ring in particular! although his work seems to have moved on from the use of oppressively heavy and archetypal Germanic mythos, into something that looks a bit more like an incredibly monumental Arte Povera. he also seems quite preoccupied with the Bible these days...
but he did do something very opera-like at the Bastille in Paris last year:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/10/anselm-kiefer-bastille-opera
William Kentridge seems to be the only important visual artist working as an opera director at the moment. his production of Shostakovich's The Nose was very well received.
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/content/places/vivien-schweitzer/william-kentridges-nose-farce
oh yes, i think Julian Schnabel designed that production of Lou Reed's Berlin as well...there may be a few others....