Our first stop was in Ottawa where we visited our National Art Centre.
This is a magnificent building adjacent to Parliament Hill. It houses some of the great art treasures of the land and also some of the most egregious fakes and frauds.
Here is a painting by Lawren Harris of the 'Group of Seven' that captures something of the beauty and barrenness of the Canadian North.
Another painting called "Paranoia" cost more of our hard-earned tax dollars to purchase but raised my blood pressure to the point where I needed a cup of tea in the cafeteria to calm down.
I have a personal theory: that a Nation's Art reflects a nation's state before the Lord.
This being the case we have sure drifted a long way since the immortal work of the Old Masters and the halycon days of the "Group of Seven"
Jubilate anyway.
Ian
Ian
