"Gossip" by George Agnew Reid, 1888
I love this painting. I finally managed to get to the newly re-jigged AGO.... Frank Gehry, you did a fine job! I had heard there was a fantastic installation of a giant knitted piece, but alas... "This area is currently blocked off for a new installation" Darn...But, yay, my favorite George A Reid painting "Gossip" has been reinstalled in all its glory. I'm not a massive fan of late 19th century Academic Painting, although the odd Paul Peel & A Bougereau can make me smile... but this one is so plainly intimate and real... I just love it.... Wooly... Guerilla... I recognize us, how bout you? Swap the aprons for some LuluLemon lycra and I'd say... YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, Guerilla! And me? well I've been know to drop my yarn on the floor, much to the dismay of many my fellow fibre-floozies! Doesn't this look vaguely reminiscent of a last thursday of the month on Seaton Street? I'll say!Gotta Love it.
2 comments:
Love it! An old school Stitch and B*tch session. I have to make it to the AGO soon :)
PJ
I love how the knitter isn't actually knitting in the painting and the spinner isn't actually spinning. Nails it on the head as far as s'n'bs go!
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