Ordinary Idealized presents works from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection by Christopher Pratt (1955-2022), a renowned Canadian painter and printmaker who often took inspiration from scenery across his beloved home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The artist filtered ordinary, everyday sights through memory and imagination, editing out imperfections and straightening lines, creating worlds between reality and fiction. The works hold conflict between the inherent coldness of perfection and the warmth of his adoration, rendered in the style of Magical Realism, which Pratt helped make a defining style in Canadian Art for decades.
Ordinary Idealized
Christopher Pratt
Ordinary Idealized presents works from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection by Christopher Pratt (1955-2022), a renowned Canadian painter and printmaker who often took inspiration from scenery across his beloved home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The artist filtered ordinary, everyday sights through memory and imagination, editing out imperfections and straightening lines, creating worlds between reality and fiction. The works hold conflict between the inherent coldness of perfection and the warmth of his adoration, rendered in the style of Magical Realism, which Pratt helped make a defining style in Canadian Art for decades.
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