Painters, Poets, Dancers, and Intellectuals leading their society through a modernizing, secularising revolution, this was and is la révolution tranquille.
The workshop focuses on the painters, and one dancer turned painter, exploring the spirituality of their contribution to a modern Québec. Collectively, having been called Les Automatistes from the way they painted, they presented the emotive impact of colour on canvas, and later through bronze, tile, and stained glass on an urban environment.
Participant will engage in a hands-on project in the ‘voice’ of one of the artists of the group.
We will conclude with a worship experience originally created for Advent that dialogues between the paintings of Mark Rothko and the music of Benjamin Britten.
Rev. Dr. R. Douglas Throop, grandson of Rev. Sheldon Throop, is a 3rd generation alumnus of Queen’s. Doug holds a BA in Art History, Queen’s, an MA in Art & Theology in Early Christian Art, McGill, a Dip. Min. from UTC, and a doctorate from Princeton in Architectural Leadership.
He has served rural, suburban, inner city, university campus, and First Nations communities in B.C., Ontario, and Québec. Minister of Mountainside United Church in Montréal, he has experience leading congregations through major transformations. Doug is an artist, with studio courses at Queen’s and private lessons with A. J. Casson.