image gallery https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 Behind the lens: watch Greg Denton paint the final canvas in a 100-portrait project https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/2015/11/behind-the-lens-watch-greg-denton-paint-the-final-canvas-in-a-100-portrait-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=behind-the-lens-watch-greg-denton-paint-the-final-canvas-in-a-100-portrait-project Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:44:34 +0000 https://www.uoguelph.ca/porticomagazine/?p=989 As the city’s 2015 artist-in-residence, Denton was commissioned to complete a public art project marking the centennial of the writing of In Flanders Fields by Guelph poet John McCrae. For “100 Portraits/100 Poppies: Sitting in Remembrance,” Denton, an instructor in U of G’s School of Fine Art and Music, painted portraits of local military personnel,

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]]> As the city’s 2015 artist-in-residence, Denton was commissioned to complete a public art project marking the centennial of the writing of In Flanders Fields by Guelph poet John McCrae.

For “100 Portraits/100 Poppies: Sitting in Remembrance,” Denton, an instructor in U of G’s School of Fine Art and Music, painted portraits of local military personnel, veterans and cadets, as well as people affected by war or inspired by the century-old poem. Each subject is in uniform where applicable, and wearing a poppy.

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