Kingston Arts & Letters Club discussion October 15
Kingston Arts & Letters Club presents a discussion about portraiture, "Wither Portraiture?", moderated by Gary Michael Dault, Globe & Mail art critic.
7-9 PM, Thursday, October 15, *note date change*
3rd Floor, RCHA, 193 Ontario Street.
All welcome. Cash bar.
For further information: (613) 544-5040.
7-9 PM, Thursday, October 15, *note date change*
3rd Floor, RCHA, 193 Ontario Street.
All welcome. Cash bar.
For further information: (613) 544-5040.
posted by Artsking at
7:06 AM
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Last week on Thursday Oct 15 evening I went with a friend to the Kingston Arts & Letters Club. It’s a relatively new club, in it’s 2nd year in Kingston and is still finding it’s feet with art enthusiasts here. There was a big turnout, as the topic for the evening was: “Whither Portraiture?”…a timely subject, as The Kingston Prize is currently on exhibit at the Grand Theatre in Kingston this month before it moves on to Wolfville NS, Toronto & Calgary. That evening the speaker was Gary Michael Dault (globe&mail art critic). He spoke once last year at the club as well, and i found it interesting. However this evening I wasn’t very impressed. I was surprised to realize just how little insight an ’art critic’ needs before waxing poetic contempt about a subject. Being articulate doesn’t necessarily mean one knows what he is talking about and in fact he proved this a few times on Thursday evening…in my opinion he was narrow minded on the subject. Thank goodness there was a few humourous quotes, and some educated portrait artists in the crowd: Daniel Hughes, Ben Darrah, & JT Winik (to name a few) who were able to argue for the relevance, culture and validity of portraiture in art. We left early.
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