Robert Burns - Montréal, Québec - Exact Replicas on Waymarking.com

DESCRIPTION DE L'OEUVRE

Les bronzes de ce monument constituent une réplique posthume d’une œuvre dont l’original est installé à Ayr, en Écosse, dans le comté natal du poète Robert Burns. Il s’agit ici d’un don d’un comité de citoyens d’origine écossaise (Franco-Scottish Association of Montréal) afin de marquer le 83e anniversaire de la mort du plus célèbre de leurs poètes. Le sculpteur écossais G. A. Lawson a choisi de représenter Burns encore jeune, debout, la jambe droite légèrement avancée, dans une pose où il bat mentalement la mesure d’une de ces célèbres ballades. Les trois bas-reliefs sur le socle de granit illustrent des scènes de ses poèmes, dont la vie campagnarde tissée de labeurs et de légendes. Bien que Burns ne soit jamais venu au Canada, ce monument s’avère la manifestation de l’attachement des membres la communauté écossaise de Montréal à leurs racines.

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ARTWORK DESCRIPTION

The bronzes in this monument form a posthumous replica of a work the original of which stands in Ayr, Scotland, poet Robert Burns’s county of birth. The monument was donated by a committee of citizens of Scottish origin (the Franco-Scottish Association of Montréal) to mark the 83rd anniversary of the death of their homeland’s most famous poet. The Scottish sculptor G. A. Lawson chose to portray Burn as a young man, standing, his right leg slightly advanced, in a pose in which he was mentally beating the measure of one of his famous ballads. The three bas-reliefs on the granite base illustrate scenes from his poems, including a rural life in which toil and legends were interwoven. Although Burns never came to Canada, this monument is intended to manifest the attachment of members of the Montréal Scottish community to their roots.

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Where is original located?: Ayr, Scotland Where is this replica located?: Montréal, Québec Who created the original?: George Anderson Lawson Internet Link about Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr#/media/File:AyrMontage.jpg Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 1892

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