I went to AGO today. Art Gallery of Ontario. The goal was to see the Chagall and the Russian Avant-Garde exhibit before it was over. What a day!
I was amazed at how inspirational it was for me to stand near those masterpieces of all time. Chagall, Kandinsky, Monet, Picasso...Breathing that air, reading life stories of the artists that gave life to these priceless brush strokes made me feel insignificantly mortal and yet potentially spiritually eternal!
They loved and lived as if it is never going to end.. When they were painting on the streets of Paris, exiled from home, anguished by war, poverty, revolution, their faith, courage and incredible will to create surfaced, only to make this bitter world a better place to live in.
You pay 25 dollars to get in to AGO. It is not allowed to touch, even get close to these paintings. There are security personnel at every corner. People come with walkers, strollers, wheel chairs. People come from across the country. People (ages from 10-90 literally!) sit at the benches facing a wall-sized painting, staring, thinking, reflecting, just being...
In their silences they come together to celebrate humanity, history and yes courage. In my silences, among them, I found peace.
I talk too much these days anyway...
I did not know that...
Leonardo Da Vinci enjoyed purchasing caged birds so that he could set them free...
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