I went to Cabbage Town. There’s usually lots of art there.
Not much there this year, but WOW, pollinator gardens everywhere.
Butterflies, bees and crazy busy insect flight zones in every garden.
It was a wonderful happening.
Based on a true story, The Sapphires is a great movie about 4 girls who rose above.
Pics taken by Resa – July 22, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The Artist:
In this remarkable work of street art by renown Portuguese artist Artur Bordalo, Rabbit’s nose is made from a sheet metal scrap with a few bolts, and metal flex dryer ducting.
I see perforated metal,
There’s old electric cords. Eyes… what are those black obsidian looking orbs?
Rabbit’s carrots are from traffic delineator posts.
Whiskers seem like windshield wipers.
There’s blue plastic paint bucket lids.
Plastic garbage can lids, part of a recycling bin, black plastic snap together shelving shelves.
There’s something that looks like laminate flooring cut to give a fur effect, and orange cut baseboard moulding of sorts. All with a bit of paint here and there.
Looks like the outside of the right ear is a tire. I could be wrong.
CLOSE-UPS OF UTILIZED TRASH
Pics taken by Resa – July 21, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The artist: click on his signature to visit his website!
It looks like a painting of a classic sculpture on a stucco wall.
However if you look at the last 3 shots, you will see the left corner peeling. It reveals brick.
Is the medium really thick pealing paint, or an incredibly well done paste-up?
Adonis, the god of beauty and attraction is the male counterpart for Aphrodite.
He looks even prettier surrounded by the tags and mayhem of Graffiti Alley.
This piece sings for a neo-classic music composition. I have chosen fellow blogger Trent McDonald’s “Piano Sonata in g minor lll: Scherzo” done on a Garritan virtual Steinway software piano.
Pics taken by Resa – July 19, 2023
Toronto, Canada
Artist – unknown
“A few years back I decided to compose a “classical style” piano sonata. By “classical style”, I am talking late 18th/early 19th century. More specifically, I was thinking Beethoven. I had already composed a sonatina that is very Clementi in style, so it was time for the Big B.
This was the Scherzo, which was a “little joke”. Deep down there is an almost minuet hidden, but you’d have to dig deep to find it. No, “little joke” describes it much better. I always really like it, almost as much as the scherzo to my sonata in c# minor, which is what I use for my phone’s ringtone. ”
Or as I call it, International Geese.
When I first saw it I gasped, and thought they were all patterned Canada Geese. I thought of Merril and Tim as I’ve seen many Canada Geese on their blogs.
Okay all geese are not Canada Geese, but all geese are geese (be they a goose or a gander). There are 17 fabric patterns from 17 different cultures in this mural. Before I looked at the legend, I found 14.
Although I found 14 geese, I didn’t know what fabric pattern came from where. I had to use the legend. Here are the 14 I found.
It’s a hectic mural. I presented best I could. There is a bit of goose overlap.
But where where those last 3 geese? I had to use the legend, again. I’m thinking the last 3 are not geese, but rather the shores of the Mississaugas. You can read about it after the last 3 patterns.
15 & 16
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Pic taken by Resa – July 19, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The Artist:
Annie Hamel
Reflections
Close-ups on a few patterns
Rebecca at Chasing Art and I have had a few conversations about Henry Moore’s sculptures.
I’ve been wanting to shoot this sculpture for Rebecca (and all) for a while now. It’s in a park by the AGO. Every time I go by the AGO & the park, I think of her.
I began at one side, and shot my way around the sculpture.
This sculpture was in front of the AGO since 1974. It was moved to the park in 2017.
It was replaced with: Elephant on a Ball
Pics taken by Resa – July 19, 2023
Toronto, Canada
Anser can draw a face without taking his spray off the garage door, and without taking his finger off the aerosol actuator.
It was a swiftly drifting big clouds, little clouds, dark clouds, pale clouds and sunny day.
This must be the reason the garage doors came out off-white to dark beige.
Anser’s faces were some of the original street I ever found.
They were everywhere.
I don’t see them around much, anymore.
Pics taken by Resa – July 3, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The artist:
Anser (unsigned)
Scheheraholly is inspired from a poem written by Holly – House of Heart
It was like “A Thousand and One Arabian Nights”, and Holly was like a Scheherazade.
The day she posted the poem, I had found a piece of alley art that played into the whole idea, especially the second last line.
I named it Sheheraholly. Now, I have found Scheheraholly II
Behind a van on an urban desert sand,
no one can see her eyes through her art.
The amazing violin solo is 2.5 minutes
Pics taken by Resa – June 19, 2023
Toronto, Canada
The Artist:
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