Canadian Art

First entry for second semester! We looked at a lot of amazing artists today, as usual, but the one that struck me the most was Murray Favro and his version of Van Gogh's bedroom. SO COOL. I always think it is crazy when artists are able to do things like this, it would take so much work and planning in order to have everything line up properly and look realistic. Meanwhile I get bored of my artwork after 15 minutes...

Murray Favro "Van Gogh's Room" 1974

I have a good friend who is majoring in Computer Science and I have spent the last 3 years trying to convince her that she should use that knowledge to create those amazing building projectors that these works remind me of. The ones that transform entire, huge buildings into something completly different and exciting, but just for a few minutes or an evening, such as this one in China..

We also talked a bit about how Alex Colville had originally planned to study medicine at Dalhousie, and it is crazy to think how different not just his life would have been, but how different MTA might be if he hadn't come here. I have to wonder how drastically my life choices have effected my future- its a scary thought. I had never planned on studying art history, I was originally in International Relations in my first semester at MTA, and after that I was planning to transfer to film school, but instead chose to try art history and I guess I fell a bit in love with it. How is that going to effect my future? I know a International Relations degree and an Art History degree are definitly very different, and the doors I will later be able to open will not be the same. I think I did, but I hope that my choice was right and that things turn out even half as well as they did for Alex Colville!
I have had a copy of Colville's "To Prince Edward Island" hanging in my cottage for as long as I can remember, but I never knew anything about it except that the following binoculars creeped me out as a child, until I came accross the country and took art history at MTA. Maybe its fate? If you believe in that stuff.

Alex Colville "To Prince Edward Island"