We lock away our art. This is an obvious necessity. Paintings need to be protected and conserved, which is why paintings are stored in institutions and on gallery walls.
With the exception of what we might have in our homes or places of work, paintings don’t drift into our day-to-day lives the way music or words can.
There are reproductions of paintings, of course, but paintings resist being photographed with the same energy by which an artist applies brush strokes.
Looking at a painting is a very different experience from looking at a picture of a painting; and looking at a painting is not an experience that happens with the ease of reading on the subway or listening to music while sitting in traffic.
Even movies — once locked away in palatial splendour — have escaped to the everywhere of laptops and iPads. But, for the most part, paintings haven’t lowered the drawbridge very much.
This is particularly true of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. There, on Jan. 6, “Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven” ends an acclaimed international run that began at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London in the autumn of 2011.
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