Is it a photograph or a painting? The Beauty of Life, the first photographic art exhibition in its 172-year history at Toronto’s Roberts Gallery features 12 limited edition works by Toronto artist Elaine Waisglass and forges new territory in “constructionist” art by taking a backward look through centuries of art history and literature to find thematic resonance in forgotten concepts, theories and techniques that have long since been abandoned. Waisglass’s Claude Monet-inspired photographs are painterly and individually feature a vase with cut flowers from her own garden, which was also the theme of her first highly successful public showings last year with A Year in My Arts & Crafts Garden, in which the artist built her landscape based on the philosophy of William Robinson’s 1860 book, “The Wild Garden”. Her works highlight and move through all four seasons.