canadian art major project

Grade 10 Visual Arts

Canadian Art Major Project

Painting has been a part of recorded the human experience for

thousands of years.

People painted to communicate ideas before they had an official language to express themselves.

When we are children we draw to express ourselves before we can speak or read.

Some believe that visual language is our first language.

But we don’t all see the world in the same way.

A painting is a creative visual description of a person, place or idea.

Our painting project topic will be :

Canadian Painting

and the way it is a creative visual description of this place we call ‘Canada’.

Early Canadian Art explored the ‘new frontier’ and documented the

way of life.

Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian, 1815-72) Breaking Up of a Country Ball in Canada, Early Morning, 1857

Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810-1871)Scene in the Northwest, 1845-1846

The Group of Seven were a collective of Canadian artists who were convinced that a nation could only be a true nation when it had its own strong style of art. The Canadian landscape was unique and these artists chose that as their subject

matter.

Lawren S. Harris Canadian 1885-

1970

Group of Seven

"The Jack Pine"  by Tom Thomson A.J. Casson

The Group of Seven

A.Y. Jackson: The Red Maple , 1914 Fred Varley, Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay

Group of Seven

James Edward Harvey MacDonald Arthur Lismer (1885-1969)

(1873-1932)

Emily Carr: Being female, Emily Carr was not accepted into

the official Group of Seven ‘brotherhood’. It is now recognized that she was every bit as good as

they were.

Charles Comfort

Carl Schaefer

Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Painters Eleven: http://www.painters11.com/painters1

1.html

William Ronald 1993-Acrylic. Jock Macdonald

Eastern Canadian Artists

Alex Colville 1920 - present

Mary Pratt: 1935 - presentEastern Canadian Artists

Molly Lamb Bobak: 1922 – present

Eastern Canadian ArtistsPaul Hannon (Halifax)

You can check out any Canadian artist you wish. You may refer to the following list if you like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Canada#R

Nova Scotian artists:

http://www.studiorally.ca/index2.html