Leave it to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to decide to bring the hugely successful exhibition Once Upon A Time Walt Disney to our fair city in its only stop in North America from March 8, to June 24.It's difficult to imagine good old Walt sitting side by side with the great masters, but there it is.
"Walt Disney belongs alongside the most important figures of cinema and, more generally, twentieth-century art," concludes the MMFA web site.
And who can argue with that? If Andy Warhol can get away with Campbell's soup can paintings then why can't Disney rise to pop-art stardom.
"Although he cannot be considered as the inventor of the cartoon, he was the first to give it such careful artistic treatment: the quality of the Disney Studios’ drawings is one of the discoveries of this exhibition," claims the site.
The jury is still out -- I'll share my take on it after I make the trip.
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