Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 103 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0044-5 Emily Carr (1871–1945) was one of the first artists of national significance to emerge from the West Coast. Along with the Group of Seven, she became a leading figure in Canadian modern art in the twentieth century. She spent the greater part of her life living and working in Victoria, where she struggled...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2016. — 130 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0114-5 When Paraskeva Clark (1898–1986), an émigré from Russia via Paris, arrived in Toronto in 1931, the local art scene was ready for a change. The dominant wilderness landscape idiom, rooted in nationalist ideology, was no longer adequate to express the social and political turmoil that would unfold over the...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2017. — 107 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0123-7 Celebrated for her large-scale drawings, enigmatic subject matter, and collaborative work with contemporary artists, Shuvinai Ashoona (b. 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist living in Kinngait, Nunavut. The dramatic changes in the North—the shift from life on the land to settled communities and access...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2013. — 63 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9921483-2-4 Critically and financially, Jack Chambers was one of the most successful Canadian artists of his time. Born in London, Ontario, in 1931, he had an insatiable desire to travel and to become a professional artist. Chambers trained in Madrid in the 1950s, learning the classical traditions of Spain and Europe....
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 104 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0016-2 The leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the principal author of the Refus global manifesto of 1948, Paul-Émile Borduas had a profound influence on the development of the arts and of thought, both in the province of Quebec and in Canada. Borduas was born in 1905 in the village of...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2016. — 114 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0082-7 Jean Paul Lemieux (1904–1990), painter, illustrator, critic, and teacher, is one of the most significant artists in the history of Canadian modernity. While Lemieux evolved on the margins of the principal art movements of his time, his oeuvre belongs with the great figurative exploration of the twentieth...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 113 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0065-0 Oscar Cahén (1916–1956) arrived in Quebec from Europe in 1940 as an unwilling refugee. Yet in a few short years the vibrant and emotionally complex artist would broaden the scope of illustration and painting in Canada. Cahén died suddenly in 1956, but not before rising to be one of the nation’s most...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2017. — 123 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0126-8 The art of William Kurelek (1927–1977) navigated the unsentimental reality of Depression-era farm life and plumbed the sources of the artist’s debilitating mental suffering. By the time of his death, he was one of the most commercially successful artists in Canada. Forty years after Kurelek’s premature...
Dundurn, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1459741348, 978-1459741355, 978-1459741362. Michael Snow is rightly recognized as the greatest living Canadian artist, and he is also acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Canadian art history. In a productive, lengthy career, he has, in a wide variety of genres, asked (and often answered) some of the most vexing and...
Publishers Group West, Douglas & McIntyre, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2010. — 528 p. — ISBN 978-1-55365-362-2, 978-1-55365-882-5, 978-1-55365-807-8. Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H....
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 108 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0058-2 Pitseolak Ashoona had “an unusual life, being born in a skin tent and living to hear on the radio that two men landed on the moon,” as she recounts in Pictures Out of My Life. Born in the first decade of the twentieth century, she lived in semi-nomadic hunting camps throughout southern Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 94 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0004-9 Michael Snow traces the dualistic structure of his work to his Canadian upbringing between two cultures—English and French—and his early awareness of the different qualities of sight and sound, learned from his parents. Having studied at the Ontario College of Art in his native Toronto, he travelled in...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 106 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0028-5 Harold Town (1924–1990) was a brilliant figure in Canadian art from the 1950s to the 1980s. A founding member of the Abstract Expressionist group Painters Eleven, Town went on to explore a variety of media and styles. International acclaim for his 1950s prints was followed by Toronto shows where his...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 160 p. Irene Avaalaaqiaq has received commissions for public buildings from Churchill, Manitoba, to Minneapolis, to Ottawa. She has had solo exhibitions at the Isaacs/Innuit Gallery in Toronto and her work was included in a touring exhibition organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1999 she had a solo exhibition at the Macdonald...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0052-0 Yves Gaucher (1934–2000) was one of Canada’s foremost abstract painters of the second half of the twentieth century. He first made his mark as an innovative printmaker, winning international prizes for his work. After turning to painting in 1964 and for the rest of his life, he pursued his abstract style...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 80 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0010-0 William Notman arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1856 and swiftly established himself as Montreal’s most prominent photographer, with studio portraits forming the core of his work. Notman developed complex composite pictures for large groups and innovative techniques for creating winter scenes in his...
University of Manitoba Press, 2016. — 232 p. Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau a shaman artist who tapped a deep spiritual force? Or was he simply one of Canada’s most significant artists? Carmen L. Robertson charts...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2016. — 92 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0087-2 Norval Morrisseau (1931–2007) is considered by many to be the Mishomis, or grandfather, of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada. His life has been sensationalized in newspapers and documentaries while his unique artistic style has pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling. The creator of the Woodland...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2017. — 111 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0101-5 Greg Curnoe (1936–1992) was the driving force behind a regionalist sensibility that, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important centre for artistic production in Canada. While his oeuvre chronicled his own daily experience in a variety of media, it was grounded in twentieth-century art...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 127 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0079-7 Tom Thomson (1877–1917) is one of the greatest artists Canada ever produced, yet much of his life remains shrouded in mystery. He began as an itinerant engraver and after several years emerged as a gifted and innovative painter. This transformation started in 1909, when he found himself surrounded by a...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2015. — 101 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0071-1 Celebrated for her sculptural forms, defiant figures, and expressionistic colours, Prudence Heward (1896–1947) created provocative representations of female subjects. She was affiliated with the Beaver Hall Group, the Canadian Group of Painters, and the Contemporary Arts Society, but also exhibited with the...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0040-7 Joyce Wieland (1930–1998) began her career as a painter in Toronto before moving to New York in 1962, where she soon achieved renown as an experimental filmmaker. The 1960s and 1970s were productive years for Wieland, as she explored various materials and media and as her art became assertively political,...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2016. — 139 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0093-3 Provocateurs General Idea (active 1969–1994) invented their history and made it reality: “We wanted to be famous, glamourous and rich. That is to say we wanted to be artists and we knew that if we were famous and glamourous we could say we were artists and we would be.… We did and we are. We are famous,...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 76 p. — ISBN: 978-0-9921483-8-6 Kathleen Munn (1887–1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new visual vocabulary as she combined the traditions of European art with modern art...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2014. — 77 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0022-3 Zacharie Vincent was born on January 28, 1815, in the Huron-Wendat village of Jeune-Lorette, about fifteen kilometres north of Quebec City in what is now the Wendake Reserve. His practice as an artist—particularly through his self-portraits—enabled him to overturn conventional ideas about Native-colonial...
Toronto: Art Canada Institute. 2016. — 147 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4871-0108-4 Jock Macdonald was a trailblazer in Canadian art from the 1930s to 1960. He was the first painter to exhibit abstract art in Vancouver, and throughout his life he championed Canadian avant-garde artists at home and abroad. His career path reflected the times: despite his commitment to his artistic practice,...
Подборка из 14 картин художницы. Художница Lucie Bilodeau (Люси Билодо) родом из Канады, где родилась в 1967 году. Любовь к искусству проявилась в 7 лет. С 14 лет училась в навыкам традиционного изобразительного искусства в школе Renaissance в Монреале. В 23 года выиграла 8 национальных наград и 2 международные на Международном конкурсе Гильдии искусств во Флориде. Сейчас работает...
Без выходных данных. — 116 с. Норм Истман (Norm Eastman) родился в 1931 году. Истман был выходцем из богобоязненной канадской семьи. Он учился в христианском колледже с художественной школой. Но когда стал художником, прославился рисунками про нацистские пытки и издевательства, которые многие считают неполиткорректными. Его рисунки в основном печатались в журнале «Men Today» в...
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