Apparently the scenery in Canada is so neat that until the early 20th century there had been hardly any landscape artists from that country. The problem must have been one of mesmerism: the paint had already dried on the easel before an artist could drag their eyes back down to the blank canvas. Sometime around WWI a group of seven dudes got a grip (ltd) on the problem and produced, in a variety of mostly post impressionistic style, a beautiful and valuable record of the spirit of Canada. Some of my favorite of their works are here below: collected to inspire my own brushy journey - as someone somewhere said, "... I don't known much about art, but I know what I like".
AJ Casson - Summer Hillside
Arthur Lismer - Isles of Spruce
AY Jackson - The Red Maple
Emily Carr - Brittany Coast 1911 (not really one of the seven but should have been)
Frank Johnston - Winter Stream (the only dude to abandon the seven)
Franklin Carmichael - October Gold
JEH MacDonald - The Little Falls
Lawren Harris - Snow
Tom Thompson - The Pool
AJ Casson - Summer Hillside
Arthur Lismer - Isles of Spruce
AY Jackson - The Red Maple
Emily Carr - Brittany Coast 1911 (not really one of the seven but should have been)
Frank Johnston - Winter Stream (the only dude to abandon the seven)
Franklin Carmichael - October Gold
JEH MacDonald - The Little Falls
Lawren Harris - Snow
Tom Thompson - The Pool
2 comments:
wrong there isn't 7 pic's there is 9,
lol
In case anyone's interested, art in Canada didn't just start with the Group of 7. Canadian artists like Jean Guyon, Pierre Le Ber, George Heriot, Paul Kane, Lucius O'Brien, John Fraser, and numerous others were painting LONG before G7 artists emerged. And Hunter's right, there's 9 ;P
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