Some 50 participants hit the Art Gallery of Ontario today at 10:30 a.m., some by car, others by streetcar or subway, and at least one on foot, for MicroSkills Language Centre's first field trip to this premier showcase of Canadian culture.
Once inside, participants headed first to the Canadian galleries, where they took in firsthand what they'd studied for days before: Krieghoff, the Group of Seven, the Indian Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, Kurelek, and more.
At William Kurelek's theologically strident The Rock, one Chinese-looking individual was spotted jotting down the evils attacking the mighty Romish Rock, which are listed on both sides of a gigantic dragon in the middle:
Left of the dragon
- political intrigue
- racial intolerance
- nationalism
- inquisition
- laxity
- wealth
- simony
- arrogance
- power
- leakage
- properties
- personalities
- class
- dearth of vocations
- ennui
- schism
- superstition
- graft
- factions
Right of the dragon
- absenteeism
- apostasy
- heresy
- puritanism
- obscurant[ism]
- errors in political alignment
- sloth
- ghetto mentality
- warmaking
- modernism (shows spear plunging into sandbank with Kurelek's signature)
- bad example
- in loco parentis
Some even made it over to the Galeria Italia with its wonders in wood.
Happy campers, sort of.
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