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Grade 10 Visual Arts
Canadian Art Major Project
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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.
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When we are children we draw to express ourselves before we can speak or read.
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Some believe that visual language is our first language.
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But we don’t all see the world in the same way.
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A painting is a creative visual description of a person, place or idea.
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Our painting project topic will be :
Canadian Painting
and the way it is a creative visual description of this place we call ‘Canada’.
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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
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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
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Group of Seven
"The Jack Pine" by Tom Thomson A.J. Casson
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The Group of Seven
A.Y. Jackson: The Red Maple , 1914 Fred Varley, Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
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Group of Seven
James Edward Harvey MacDonald Arthur Lismer (1885-1969)
(1873-1932)
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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.
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Charles Comfort
Carl Schaefer
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Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art
Jean-Paul Riopelle
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Painters Eleven: http://www.painters11.com/painters1
1.html
William Ronald 1993-Acrylic. Jock Macdonald
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Eastern Canadian Artists
Alex Colville 1920 - present
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Mary Pratt: 1935 - presentEastern Canadian Artists
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Molly Lamb Bobak: 1922 – present
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Eastern Canadian ArtistsPaul Hannon (Halifax)
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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