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THE HERALD Wednesday May 1990 Page Arts touch the senses in many ways Painting in most cultures of the past had the task to record events or to illustrate legends and religious histories Practically all painting between the year and after the birth of Christ for in stance illustrated the Bible Later in still life portraits the landscape became fashionable ob jects for in an ingly secular civilization With the discoveries of science painting became scientific and and was given the misleading label realistic Eventually with the invention of photography the umbilical cord between painting and surface reality was cut The artist was now free to discover and explore visual universes so to say the the one he was actually living in Joseph invented true photography in 1826 The tye which is a highly complex but relatively crude organ could act as a door now that allowed entry to fields beyond human conception to fields of the imagination It took about another 80 years before totally nonobjective or abstract paintings appeared We credit Vassily Kandinbky for ing painted around the year the first painting without any reference to socalled reality Music being a visual art medium always possessed this freedom to find expressions for something that is beyond definition by the human eye Because of this music became the supreme art form of religious longing and ec- in particular in the composi tions of Johann Sebastian Bach YELLOW CAB HALTON HILLS HOUR SERVICf SERVING HALTON HILLS Airport Portal Dmtl vary 8732527 Corner of pi A Trafalgar WILLOW LANE I NATURAL FOODS Locations To Sorve You DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC TRENTON J 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY ESS AND CULTURAL CENTRE Abstract painting came relative ly late to Canada but by the 30 painters like Bertram and Jock MacDonald did experimental abstract work that we now praise In the the battle was on bet ween the old established artists and the young abstract rebels like Jack Busk Harold Town and Oscar The latter won and by the end of the 60s there was hardly a realistic painting in sight in Toronto art galleries Since then the scale has tipped the other way again We are now deluged by paintings that give the viewer through rendered detail a never ended world of fugacious wish fulfillment It s time for a switch An exhibition such as Hidden Bounty for instance staged some weeks ago at the Cultural Centre with it many clear and menial artworks from the 60 was positively refreshing in the present prevailing artistic climate Recently I went to Acton to the home of Valerie Nichol an abstract painter and pianist Robert Daigneault composLr and painter I wanted to see their new paintings When I left them Robert gave me a tape with one of his compositions played by Valene I have played the tape for the last hour The music made me write what I have written so far His music and her painting seem to be different sides of the same coin Her way of playing his music resembles the way he paints These two artists collaborate in a way I have never encountered before They both studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto In addition they studied at the On College of Art Since then they have been part of the cutting edge of modern music and painting in Canada Robert is an established com poser now He has written scores for The Toronto Dance Theatre The Galliard Ensemble The Toronto Percussion Ensemble The Oxford Siring Quartet and many more Valerie performs her husband work only and creates with him multi layered musical tapes They yvc concerts together and prefer performing if possible in a space that is hung with Valerie s pain tings THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Halton Hills lis Box HALTON HILLS Georgetown L7G BOX CULVERT CONSTRUCTION 5TH LINE LOT 29 The Town of Halton Hills invites you to attend a Public Information Centre to review the detailed design drawings for the construction of the above noted culvert The Public Information Centre will be held as follows DATE Thursday May 31 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