tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40069910796751254312024-03-13T13:58:32.955-07:00Masters Gallery VancouverVancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-56848575448227988892016-05-19T11:06:00.001-07:002016-05-19T11:06:17.318-07:00THE INTERNATIONALISM OF IMPRESSIONISM: Friends of Canadians Abroad<p>THE INTERNATIONALISM OF IMPRESSIONISM: Friends of Canadians Abroad</p>
<p>Between the 1870s and the onset of the First World War most of Europe enjoyed a period marked with a relatively positive aura and peacefulness. This allowed people to focus their efforts on culture, art, literature, science, and technology compared to during the wartimes that flanked either end of this period. The Franco-Prussian War ended in 1871 and World War I broke out in 1914. At the end of the 19th century there was an explosion of interest in restaurants, theatres, cabarets, ballets and art. There were some who thought pessimistically about the extra-frivolity of society at this time, however the two great wars that ravished across Europe afterwards made the lifestyle of the Belle Époque seem enviable. The phrase <i>the joy of living</i>, often expressed in its original French as <i>Joie de Vivre</i>, has since been associated with this interwar period. Despite France’s loss in the Franco-Prussian War, its end was welcomed. A new middle and upper class, the bourgeoisie, began to enjoy life to its fullest. Paris was the epicentre of Belle Époque culture.</p>
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<p>Artists gravitated to the creative and joyful atmosphere of Paris. They also visited equally enjoyable surrounding areas of retreat, such as coastal towns in Normandy and Brittany, Barbizon, or closer haunts like Giverny, the Bois de Boulogne and the Forest at Fontainebleau. The Parisian atmosphere drew artists from all around the world to study at the origin of cutting edge art movements. This period in time spans movements and ideologies from the earliest <i>en plein air </i>artists of the Barbizon School, through impressionism, to many branches of post-impressionism. Thus, not only was the French atmosphere appealing to foreigners, they looked to the talented exceptional paintings being created by these new French schools. Artists from across the Commonwealth, Europe, Asia and America flocked to enjoy and learn in Paris and attend art schools. Some made only temporary visits to go to school, such as Emily Carr; others became expats of their countries, such as Canadian’s Blair Bruce and J.W. Morrice. Others returned for art-related visits and sketching trips over and over, such as Suzor-Cote, Clarence Gagnon, and Maurice Cullen.</p>
<p>We have discussed the migration of Canadians to Europe in earlier blogs, especially to Paris in this period. So I will not go into more detail about their art again. However there seems an endless amount of topics to discuss from this fruitful period in the history of Canadian or European art history. In the last blog I talked about the International art community coming together in International biennials and fairs. Artists come together at various shows to interact, mingle, share artistic ideas, and make global friendships. Looking back to Belle Époque Paris, I felt that the way the worldwide art community gathers at fairs today to forge friendships correlates to the way in which artists from around the World gathered in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. This led me to ponder not about Canadians specifically, but who taught them, mentored them, befriended them, and made travel companions with them when they were in France.</p>
<p>The International peers of Canadians in France are occasionally mentioned in passing in the literature, but I thought it might be interesting to gather imagery from many of the friend’s from other countries and look at their art together. What sort of art did their teachers do? What were friends painting side-by-side with our country’s cherished artists?</p>
<p>The first wave of Canadians to travel to Paris included William Brymner, Robert Harris, Paul Peel, and William Blair Bruce. The latter two never returned to Canada, and both married Scandinavians. Brymner and Harris would both return home and go on to teach subsequent talents in Montreal and Toronto. They were advocates of further Parisian training for their gifted students. They all trained at the Academie Julian, where many foreign students were trained under great French artists, such as William Bouguereau. Bouguereau was an artist with unbelievable technicality and ability in capturing expressions in the moment.</p>
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<p>Blair Bruce joined a primarily American group of artists abroad that socialized together. Bruce first befriended Theodore Robinson and together they visited Barbizon. Along with these American expats he rented a barn at Giverny in the summer of 1887. Some of these friends included John Leslie Breck, Willard Metcalf, Henry Fitch Taylor, Theodore Wendel, and Louis Ritter. They were at Giverny whilst Claude Monet was there, and somewhat naturally they gravitated to his new style of painting.</p>
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<p>J.W. Morrice moved to Paris to study at the Academie Julian a few years after the first wave of Canadians discussed above. He blended into the art scene with ease. His art was highly regarded and he seemed to be accepted as ‘the real deal.’ He was mingling in Montmartre with the historical character Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and got involved in the antagonist salons that were emerging to combat the stale and stagnant ways of the traditional academic salons. Morrice was involved in the first 1903 Salon d’ Automne, the Salon Nationale, and the related Societe Nationale. He engaged in these organizations with his very good Australian friend Charles Conder, and then-established French artists of the time: Jacques Emile Blanche, Charles Cottet, Lucien Simon, and Gaston La Touche.</p>
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<p>Beyond this, Morrice had expat companions who travelled around Europe with him. Morrice loved Venice, which is evident through his exceptional art of the time. However, it is also clear that his travel buddies loved it too; especially his American friend Maurice Prendergast. Prendergast produced some exquisite works while in Venice alongside Morrice. Morrice also went again with an American illustrator, Joseph Pennell.</p>
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<p>He also spent time with American artists Robert Henri and Everett Shinn. His closest friends were the Irish artist, Roderick O’Connor, and the Australian, Charles Conder. To my delight, I learned that the Norwegian painter Fritz Thaulow was a sketching buddy of Morrice too. Thaulow and Morrice were both founding members of the Champs de Mars Salon. Thaulow had a studio in Dieppe as well. Morrice also went to Dieppe with the famous English artist Walter Sickert. Other English acquaintances of Morrice were Sir Gerald Kelly and W. Lee Hankey.</p>
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<p>A Robert Henri sketch</p>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7WKMRHkg3HiHrRHG3XSp-F-tnzHB3x8UXFoIG2DGo0hM6cxIShKoPwsEPXOlEuddQ2V3_86oEPEBk4pxsrGM3_WIVOHQfGlTYjNddTBakxioNwryeS_uoCK6FYAGa328EqA-qXAbppwi0/s1600/sirgeraldkellybeachatetretat1908tate.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7WKMRHkg3HiHrRHG3XSp-F-tnzHB3x8UXFoIG2DGo0hM6cxIShKoPwsEPXOlEuddQ2V3_86oEPEBk4pxsrGM3_WIVOHQfGlTYjNddTBakxioNwryeS_uoCK6FYAGa328EqA-qXAbppwi0/s640/sirgeraldkellybeachatetretat1908tate.jpg" /></a><p>Sir Gerald Kelly <i>Beach at Etretat 1908</i> (Tate Gallery)</p>
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So much of the blog is devoted to Morrice’s friends because his life abroad is so well documented in G. Blair Laing’s biographical book about Morrice. But I will finish with a British Columbian favourite, Emily Carr. According to biographer Doris Shadbolt, when Carr went to Europe in 1910-1911 she went to see what all the fuss was about regarding the newly emerging abstract art but fell in love with post-impressionism. She ended her trip in Brittany, first at St. Efflam and then in Concarneau. Two important people influenced her art at this time and were dear friends of hers. She stayed with her British mentor Henry Phelan Gibb in St. Efflam first. She then spent six weeks in Concarneau with the New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins.
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicaq8a5bJRiNZx2q7KyWaI9G4s5mkOc09HYhANjayuX-KHP1tmR-hBxFcboDQCTijYN0ALBntf47eqFC5qByFUuuSK48csf1aJCGBQVPHAyGAujEWXlpxo-M5fKiZYpzOb6kK1o-ikH-rr/s1600/williamhenrygibb1907townerartgallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicaq8a5bJRiNZx2q7KyWaI9G4s5mkOc09HYhANjayuX-KHP1tmR-hBxFcboDQCTijYN0ALBntf47eqFC5qByFUuuSK48csf1aJCGBQVPHAyGAujEWXlpxo-M5fKiZYpzOb6kK1o-ikH-rr/s640/williamhenrygibb1907townerartgallery.jpg" /></a><p>Henry Phelan Gibb <i>Landscape 1907</i> (Towner Art Gallery)</p>
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<p>There are so many more artists from Canada that travelled to Paris, and other parts of Europe (such as London and Antwerp for art school) that the blog could be a multi-biographical novel. For those who are interested in looking a bit more at the internationalism of impressionism, a great start is the monumental publication <i>World Impressionism: The International Movement 1860-1920</i>.
<p>I hope you enjoy looking at the paintings of Canadian companions and spotting the stylistic similarities and differences between them.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-62811883232626997722016-04-22T15:21:00.001-07:002016-04-22T16:18:03.911-07:00FINE ART, FAIRS, AND FESTIVALS: RIOPELLE IN EXHIBITIONS<p>FINE ART, FAIRS, AND FESTIVALS: RIOPELLE IN EXHIBITIONS</p>
<p>Communication technology has helped internationalize contemporary art, allowing for talented artists from far reaches around the world to exchange dialogues, trends and commerce in a truly global way. This has made a worldly community of art professionals, lovers, and collectors, with accessibility at the tip of the finger through all of our smart devices. There are online databases, apps, blogs, twitter, instagram, dedicated websites and other new developments all the time. This has cinched the art scene closer together whilst it has simultaneously ballooned in popularity. However the thriving global contemporary art scene doesn’t function solely in the virtual realm. The world of art takes on a very physical presence in the form of art fairs and biennial-type exhibitions. The art fairs cover the commercial aspect of the art, where as a biennial is more of a festival that focuses on the art itself.</p>
<p>Art biennials are large-scale bi-annual curated exhibitions that have become huge prestigious events for rising stars and superstars of the contemporary art world. They are often written in the Italian form as <i>biennale</i>. Not all of these exhibitions are bi-annual; they could be annual, triennial, quadrennial, quinquennial and so forth. Lately I have seen these large collaborative festivals colloquially referred to as <i>–ennials</i>; but biennials seem most common. The numerous fairs and <i>–ennials</i> take place on a worldwide circuit reminiscent of grand prix sports tours. Like grand prix events, some <i>–ennials</i> are better regarded and certain well-established ones are the high points of the ‘tour de monde.’ The Venice Biennial might be considered the Olympics of <i>–ennials</i>. With ever increasing internationalism and status associated with these festivals that celebrate the contemporary art scene, there have been more and more of them established from the 1980s onwards. <i>Oxford Art Online</i> has termed this increase <i>The Biennial Phenomenon</i>.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Uo_GQHZz2UsaWpahVqSUlTEAmGMr5np8NHP93-gXNZFEe6YDKGBo34_T6iCQlIdcUMByLk2zojGNwGzvIxPRR2Xz9h7920UI8koNszfKGzQmxY8Sieus00AnvR-LVaOcMgcZG7wZsJwF/s1600/centralpavilion+venice.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Uo_GQHZz2UsaWpahVqSUlTEAmGMr5np8NHP93-gXNZFEe6YDKGBo34_T6iCQlIdcUMByLk2zojGNwGzvIxPRR2Xz9h7920UI8koNszfKGzQmxY8Sieus00AnvR-LVaOcMgcZG7wZsJwF/s400/centralpavilion+venice.jpg" /></a><p><i>The Central Pavilion for the Venice Biennale</i></p>
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<p>The 1990s in particular saw a rise in the number of art biennials. In Canada, La Biennnale de Montreal was founded in 1998 for multidisciplinary arts and a Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale was founded in 2002. An online art market hub called Artnet has even posted an article overviewing the 20 most worthwhile <i>–ennials</i> to visit. Many professionals, artists, and collectors might attend certain <i>–ennials</i> alongside art fairs, like Art Basel or Art Miami. Although the circuit of shows has exploded through the end of the 20th century and into the 21st century, many of the most prestigious biennials have roots much earlier. <i>The Biennial Phenomenon</i> was kindled in the first few decades after World War II. Two longstanding biennials are the Venice Biennial and the Sao Paulo Biennial. They were energetic events in the 1950s, akin to the Salon exhibitions in Paris in the 19th century.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxY-uzjGM6dhLOXY93z8BmGiq-1k6mAnv5qgvFvsimgjDXxV0TNd3TuUBLAf4I7kXuOKwoeaU_FC4J5Dm9nlqwvx-6zqB376ZbHBMJuvhhMNGQMC_ZsssxRXiWuVuiVu6AomNJ4Axz2-w9/s1600/wanshugangyvrbiennale.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxY-uzjGM6dhLOXY93z8BmGiq-1k6mAnv5qgvFvsimgjDXxV0TNd3TuUBLAf4I7kXuOKwoeaU_FC4J5Dm9nlqwvx-6zqB376ZbHBMJuvhhMNGQMC_ZsssxRXiWuVuiVu6AomNJ4Axz2-w9/s400/wanshugangyvrbiennale.jpg" /></a><p><i>Artist Wan Shugang bronzes for the Vancouver Biennale, now public art at English Bay, Vancouver</i></p>
<p>Canadian talent was represented in the Paris Salons and Canadians were also at the forefront in mid-20th century biennials, especially Jean-Paul Riopelle. The Venice Biennial was established in 1895 but was a revitalized in the 1950s. Sao Paulo was established in 1951 and is still a favourite biennial.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr2IGSjlNhz7KnhDlLdUatSubtL28fFZJ6TnkznXAogxuKeb7d3xQq-LXVGVcJLOdTnMTHW7pNRbGR8s4luMi8jHkK8i0i8xj3Prn_zz2eTGe6LWZoBs7hRWKnWzvuPmNKSsfK4BB_yAu0/s1600/Midcentury4950venice1962.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr2IGSjlNhz7KnhDlLdUatSubtL28fFZJ6TnkznXAogxuKeb7d3xQq-LXVGVcJLOdTnMTHW7pNRbGR8s4luMi8jHkK8i0i8xj3Prn_zz2eTGe6LWZoBs7hRWKnWzvuPmNKSsfK4BB_yAu0/s400/Midcentury4950venice1962.jpg" /></a><p><i>Jean-Paul Riopelle </i>Mid-Century 1949-50<i> was exhibited in the 1962 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<p>Jean-Paul Riopelle is arguably Canada’s most well recognized pioneer of lyrical abstract painting. His unique style won him international favour. In 1951 he exhibited in the premiere Sao Paulo biennial, and again in 1955. Jean-Paul Riopelle participated in the 1954 Venice Biennial alongside other Canadians B.C. Binning, and fellow <i>Automatiste</i> and former mentor Paul-Emile Borduas. Incidentally, Emily Carr and David Milne exhibited at the prior Venice Biennial of 1952. It is interesting to consider the diversity of styles that overlapped in contemporary Canadian art around mid-century.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURH6kAUSmdtPuD1DwTE21CuqOc67LdoPK3SNgBEuFtPV6jEwsOBY6cvlW8Km7yKNQ7diwhRsIFcUR1cJ8SkQ9bno8S8MGEtgAcYEBz2nQfTF1YKCGbe3NDv3oc1nVQIep0-p0ZITWtSf3/s1600/borduasfiguresauxoiseaux53venice54.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiURH6kAUSmdtPuD1DwTE21CuqOc67LdoPK3SNgBEuFtPV6jEwsOBY6cvlW8Km7yKNQ7diwhRsIFcUR1cJ8SkQ9bno8S8MGEtgAcYEBz2nQfTF1YKCGbe3NDv3oc1nVQIep0-p0ZITWtSf3/s400/borduasfiguresauxoiseaux53venice54.jpg" /></a><p><i>Paul-Emile Borduas</i> Figure aux oiseaux 1954<i> was exhibited at the 1954 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE0RXB3twYJGnX38FuG0EAiCr4hri4EC_nEQY6Va4WGtmvgczey5UXnAMk84duEdN3VeAECwis6j7kBXIwmBJFTweGGxqx5xCHfho20nqdKr6ra3fszhGPJ0o1ESfS8GC2pq0Cv8LaAb0/s1600/themepainting54venicebiennal54.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE0RXB3twYJGnX38FuG0EAiCr4hri4EC_nEQY6Va4WGtmvgczey5UXnAMk84duEdN3VeAECwis6j7kBXIwmBJFTweGGxqx5xCHfho20nqdKr6ra3fszhGPJ0o1ESfS8GC2pq0Cv8LaAb0/s400/themepainting54venicebiennal54.jpg" /></a><p><i>B.C. Binning </i>Theme Painting 1954<i></i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpJ64TY9HCDW9dMwUdLsUtZqILMrog9Hmy5WcJW1LbngzKRI4jgafns96iGRAKq7Tu2YH-lcqQ43iEZ3DkvyBlZxD_4ROrqXoU4mENEIWGdpegBRzp_etW1EdPxD-t2y8oNB3jROSnbx4/s1600/MilneWaterliliessundaypaper29.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpJ64TY9HCDW9dMwUdLsUtZqILMrog9Hmy5WcJW1LbngzKRI4jgafns96iGRAKq7Tu2YH-lcqQ43iEZ3DkvyBlZxD_4ROrqXoU4mENEIWGdpegBRzp_etW1EdPxD-t2y8oNB3jROSnbx4/s400/MilneWaterliliessundaypaper29.jpg" /></a><p><i>David Milne </i>Waterlilies and the Sunday Paper 1929<i> was exhibited in the 1954 Venice Biennale (black and white reproduction)</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49m835HVqBYnV6O0FM91JGxtp1mrldzfG8-EP8DuELHJZi1QXkeW_DvhMKFz0Tq34TPt1d_R_M9YPS105m1quvPtXM-cI5TQBk1lLLgUcCWUTfJncBJ86sX5GYZLvHzb47IkT5aCz3j67/s1600/oldtimecoastforest29-30VAG.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg49m835HVqBYnV6O0FM91JGxtp1mrldzfG8-EP8DuELHJZi1QXkeW_DvhMKFz0Tq34TPt1d_R_M9YPS105m1quvPtXM-cI5TQBk1lLLgUcCWUTfJncBJ86sX5GYZLvHzb47IkT5aCz3j67/s400/oldtimecoastforest29-30VAG.jpg" /></a><p><i>Emily Carr </i>Old Time Coast Forest 1929<i> Emily Carr Trust, Vancouver Art Gallery</i></p>
<p>Since 1958 there has been a specific pavilion devoted to Canadian artists at the Venice Biennials. In 1962 Riopelle was selected to represent Canada, and a sizeable amount of his paintings were displayed. He was awarded an esteemed UNESCO prize for recognition of his work that year.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9-am8aS5WylPVwdLaoNnrTh-J2uSPz-S5H9bwqcJpXiv4nK1krYclrFLSph2hJxLXgnlgr-Zjj9sAbCZVjK0cFA_hdHe7HkRphWEhnKSF3U46JR47QsXTT2XGtbsXg1slsQCP53ipZIl/s1600/EnSerre51venice1962.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9-am8aS5WylPVwdLaoNnrTh-J2uSPz-S5H9bwqcJpXiv4nK1krYclrFLSph2hJxLXgnlgr-Zjj9sAbCZVjK0cFA_hdHe7HkRphWEhnKSF3U46JR47QsXTT2XGtbsXg1slsQCP53ipZIl/s400/EnSerre51venice1962.jpg" /></a><p><i>Jean-Paul Riopelle </i>En Serre 1951<i> was exhibited in the 1962 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapfMl2UIrDrHTUC_ZK5w_lQWwe06iIGmcWxbsCpV7ZKzVc-AIVb8bWJcXuvrISq_n3o9flACfjjfT7CCnzJ0aWJpCWaslKkMK8Ku6sHGhEvv7wXeuTI9RrWD7Ac8op1yD1maMSTP54atK/s1600/gravite56venice62.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapfMl2UIrDrHTUC_ZK5w_lQWwe06iIGmcWxbsCpV7ZKzVc-AIVb8bWJcXuvrISq_n3o9flACfjjfT7CCnzJ0aWJpCWaslKkMK8Ku6sHGhEvv7wXeuTI9RrWD7Ac8op1yD1maMSTP54atK/s400/gravite56venice62.jpg" /></a><p><i>Jean-Paul Riopelle </i>Gravite 1956<i> was exhibited in the 1962 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPqTyly24eWo2JKogGqMZ4VK2m1dx9iDwUdjysadUO1vzssgeZfomI6bE7GMGtpCtuS9NDGoOcLRJch1fuKOjyP3KP3NLS3BdM4P0rrpBeFBClVYMSd-TlQZMXUHS7BJgO8BByp8-2Wy4/s1600/Hommageauxnympheas-pavane1954venice62.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLPqTyly24eWo2JKogGqMZ4VK2m1dx9iDwUdjysadUO1vzssgeZfomI6bE7GMGtpCtuS9NDGoOcLRJch1fuKOjyP3KP3NLS3BdM4P0rrpBeFBClVYMSd-TlQZMXUHS7BJgO8BByp8-2Wy4/s400/Hommageauxnympheas-pavane1954venice62.jpg" /></a><p><i>Jean-Paul Riopelle </i>Hommage aux nympheas- Pavane 1954<i> was exhibited in the 1962 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<p>Riopelle and the other Canadians representing the country at these important biennials showed their work alongside familiar artists who adorn the pages of all western art history textbooks. Some examples include Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and Ben Nicholson from the United Kingdom. Also exhibiting these years in Venice were Willem de Kooning and Paul Klee. Records for the older Sao Paulo biennials were not readily available to me, but likely other artists of importance in 20th century art history were presenting their work there too.</p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsWgGXOhq8eDnSd23qyNUDfOi8-HwhM-Aayg8Sv5yVi1pskVERdv7FGImiicuYDJzSMskjmZtkvdTnD4yJvn3mnVDE_JU9zjIdsf3SI7KYWVXBqxVj8pnnkncl_HU1PrWH4kekpwU8tm0/s1600/lucianfreid1950sleepingnude.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglsWgGXOhq8eDnSd23qyNUDfOi8-HwhM-Aayg8Sv5yVi1pskVERdv7FGImiicuYDJzSMskjmZtkvdTnD4yJvn3mnVDE_JU9zjIdsf3SI7KYWVXBqxVj8pnnkncl_HU1PrWH4kekpwU8tm0/s400/lucianfreid1950sleepingnude.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivK_BEcQaAWcfMaEUksrsoLP9iIFV1KwuV5lvK_h6I75ZWM3EJIFprlfgTNkXO7tPGHhb1tS3WH4Uwbm4N7QrnRWd91rsXVwwJRYEFFsm3NryQCR2Go9Bla8lQ-21NJlYw6OFAouq6xeMP/s1600/lucianfreudarmchairbythefireplace.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivK_BEcQaAWcfMaEUksrsoLP9iIFV1KwuV5lvK_h6I75ZWM3EJIFprlfgTNkXO7tPGHhb1tS3WH4Uwbm4N7QrnRWd91rsXVwwJRYEFFsm3NryQCR2Go9Bla8lQ-21NJlYw6OFAouq6xeMP/s400/lucianfreudarmchairbythefireplace.jpg" /></a><p><i>Works by Lucien Freud in the 1954 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwqKwhjJ1kzwKL2B0tjsZQLrtJZbDNwtULGBkqM-vMdkIufcKXrudry0KJwKxLKlhAu5ZSsuDFfZPUFrnigv15Gj6z4NNfN48Gfre5Y1aRaMers4BgWk-6HkYE-DQGwqXHvINucFsXK6G/s1600/francisbacon.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwqKwhjJ1kzwKL2B0tjsZQLrtJZbDNwtULGBkqM-vMdkIufcKXrudry0KJwKxLKlhAu5ZSsuDFfZPUFrnigv15Gj6z4NNfN48Gfre5Y1aRaMers4BgWk-6HkYE-DQGwqXHvINucFsXK6G/s400/francisbacon.jpg" /></a><p><i>Work by Francis Bacon in the 1954 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6YFpj8tyZk5kNKxiNjK_0u2Js9grOAYUYJmQH0wInwzsHsZkq9w2CIOThe1QjiLgc2JprNjpRGysN655QVGE5LFOW9YtWyyEQ6Om-c5I4DfGHT3_MVOYRI3cHev_n4bKbw0N-SjEX9PUz/s1600/WillemdeKooning.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6YFpj8tyZk5kNKxiNjK_0u2Js9grOAYUYJmQH0wInwzsHsZkq9w2CIOThe1QjiLgc2JprNjpRGysN655QVGE5LFOW9YtWyyEQ6Om-c5I4DfGHT3_MVOYRI3cHev_n4bKbw0N-SjEX9PUz/s400/WillemdeKooning.jpg" /></a><p><i>Willem de Kooning took part in the 1954 Venice Biennale</i></p>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZTBdgXXf7oSiW8WQIl-zDWTe5fdnIVfkN5vYwoMnyaM5oWBySJmnYdeRk3oRBgew4MqTwxX-UDCkPFYP-sGTm-tQpsG06XbwftJebF8hI_m62YR2kzxYJJsWD_1aN5LajpI9Tqxx9sOE6/s1600/PaulKlee1954venice.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZTBdgXXf7oSiW8WQIl-zDWTe5fdnIVfkN5vYwoMnyaM5oWBySJmnYdeRk3oRBgew4MqTwxX-UDCkPFYP-sGTm-tQpsG06XbwftJebF8hI_m62YR2kzxYJJsWD_1aN5LajpI9Tqxx9sOE6/s400/PaulKlee1954venice.jpg" /></a>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRpVbA7fNXTWQ75VsfOZ-oSnS1fPT7yJsiK-PRDVM22xarcsUdbIX60u-r7JBNFn39fNjrwI8FBLpkINETc8v__VztrpVdhyphenhyphenPeNa8rnoas2XXSltjAkdodDXp0bobYdZKIjN62naxXmiV/s1600/RiopelleWebAD.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVRpVbA7fNXTWQ75VsfOZ-oSnS1fPT7yJsiK-PRDVM22xarcsUdbIX60u-r7JBNFn39fNjrwI8FBLpkINETc8v__VztrpVdhyphenhyphenPeNa8rnoas2XXSltjAkdodDXp0bobYdZKIjN62naxXmiV/s400/RiopelleWebAD.jpg" /></a><p><i>Masters Gallery Vancouver</i> Jean-Paul Riopelle Exhibition and Sale<i> April 23-May, 2016</i></p>
<p>Riopelle’s paintings delighted visitors alongside the great contemporary artists of his time, and here at Masters Gallery we are as delighted to exhibit Riopelle’s work 62 years after he first participated in the Venice Biennial. I hope that the Canadian art stars of our time will be revered for their contributions on the worldwide circuit of fairs and <i>–ennials</i> just as Riopelle has been.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-6518327301279063732016-03-16T11:53:00.001-07:002016-03-17T13:23:29.413-07:00THE ART OF SHOPPING: CORNER STORES AND MARKETPLACES<p>THE ART OF SHOPPING: CORNER STORES AND MARKETPLACES</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPVSksJecVWilXJ63vJwlo39SjqVsmpY83Mb1ZKzTvbcL9Q6yRQd6MWtZhIBOpZE3DqPDneMgts3ksImzK6ZTwZ_leVkRukNtZz2QpqopaogZP1BKnEGFlsIIXT70wCTjIVqw_ACQs_2w/s1600/Harris+Corner+Store+1912+NGC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPVSksJecVWilXJ63vJwlo39SjqVsmpY83Mb1ZKzTvbcL9Q6yRQd6MWtZhIBOpZE3DqPDneMgts3ksImzK6ZTwZ_leVkRukNtZz2QpqopaogZP1BKnEGFlsIIXT70wCTjIVqw_ACQs_2w/s640/Harris+Corner+Store+1912+NGC.jpg" /></a></div><p><i>Lawren Harris "The Corner Store" 1912 (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)</i>,</p>
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<p>Aesthetics aside, a primary reason that I am so interested in historical art is that it often can give us glimpses of a different or changing way of life. With fine and applied art both the object itself and/or the content that the object projects can be telling of its time. This can be observed in the style and material of the period an object was made or by what the object is depicting that is contemporary to the time. The subject matter is endless but examples might be a ceremony, gleaners in a field, or fishermen in boats that are representative of their era. Even historical art <i>of</i> historical subjects can give clues about the time it was painted, such as a 16th century Tuscan religious scene in which all of the figures are outfitted in Italian Renaissance garb.</p>
<p>This blog will look at the content of some beautiful representational Canadian art from about 100 years ago to have a glance at a changing way of life here in North America. The way in which we shop has changed dramatically, and what was commonplace 100 years ago is starting to become ‘a thing of the past.’ The title of this blog includes <i>Corner Stores and Marketplaces</i> and it is these establishments (corner stores, markets and shops with specialty vendors, and small family and independent businesses) that were normal at the turn of the 20th century. As the way we shop slowly changes, bygone ways are preserved for us through the beautiful art of past epochs.</p>
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<p>In the 2nd half of the 20th century North Americans became accustomed to shopping for their needs and desires in large shopping malls and supermarkets. Added to this are the massive scale chain retailers that offer an <i>all-in-one-stop-shop</i> (that are admittedly convenient in the rain or snow). Furthermore, in the 21st century we are getting further estranged from shopping at little specialty stores because we shop from home on the Internet and items get delivered to us. Even grocery shopping can be done online. Some types of stores have even gone extinct because of the Internet, such as the video store industry. Not all small shops and markets are extinct though; their decline has been slow and even has seen attempted renewal as a romantic nostalgia. I remember the excitement around walking to the corner store to spend a childhood allowance on 1 and 5 cent candies. Many cities still have markets, such as Granville Island in Vancouver or St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. Here in Vancouver there is a small resurgence of restored local corner stores in some communities and pop-up farmer’s markets that are reminiscent of city square markets. In Europe the markets are still more prominent, and shopping for everything at separate specialty vendors and purveyors is still more normal than in North America.</p>
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<p>Canadian artists have used the community corner store or local markets as a subject for their art often, especially 100 years ago when they were a regular aspect of towns and cities. I have sifted through illustrated literature and selected some especially beautiful works. I tried to include some Canadian artists who I think are exceptional but aren't as widely appreciated as the Group of Seven members. This also gives an opportunity to remember that Canadian artists were actively pursuing subjects beyond landscapes in the early 20th century. Please enjoy having a look at shopping in the early 20th century, and reminisce about the times of the separate butcher, baker or candlestick maker!</p>
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Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-38687956610118533942016-02-12T13:48:00.001-08:002016-02-12T13:48:25.351-08:00CANADIAN REALISM AND THE EGG TEMPERA REVIVAL<p>CANADIAN REALISM AND THE EGG TEMPERA REVIVAL</p>
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<p>Egg tempera is an ancient painting medium. For thousands of years tempera was the leading method for painting on walls, murals and panels. It might be best known for its use in medieval and early renaissance International Gothic style painting, before oil took over as the main medium of choice for painters around the beginning of the 16th century. Tempera paintings have the exceptional characteristic of retaining their vibrancy. A 600-year-old painting in tempera is still extremely bright with rich reds, blues, greens, yellows and more. Oil paintings younger than these will even appear more aged, as oil paintings darken over time. Egg tempera paint is a mixture of powdered colour pigments, egg as a binder, and some other agent such as water. Unlike oil paint, egg tempera dries almost immediately and does not spread around on surfaces at all. This may seem like a disadvantage, but it allows for an incredible degree of precision and detail that is less achievable with oil paint. Egg tempera paint can be layered for various effects and opacities without disturbing or mingling with underlying layers. This is because previously applied paint becomes insoluble to water once it has dried rapidly on its support. The precision and detail obtained with egg tempera comes at the price of requiring great skill and an abundance of patience. Each brushstroke is minute and must be tediously dabbed on in small un-blending lines to build up the overall image. One can see why the greater ease of oil painting took over when it was introduced. However, the end result of an artist’s work in tempera is undeniably impressive and exceptional.</p>
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<p><i>Italian 15th century details of tempera paintings by Benozzo Gozzeli, Sandro Botticelli, Carlo Crivelli and Paulo Uccello</i></p>
<p>During postgraduate studies in art history, my classmates and I were required to sample this ancient painting method on typical gesso-primed supports in order to truly understand the massive effort and proficiency required of old master painters. We most certainly left the class with an even greater appreciation for the medieval masterpieces that we had been copying mere segments of. I found it very difficult and I finished with a copied out religious figure that looked stiff as a board and more greensick than holy. I have the uttermost appreciation for masters of this medium, and it is no wonder oil painting took over in the early modern era for ease.</p>
<p>Many historical revivalisms have happened throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, such as the Egyptian and Greco-Roman Revivals, the Gothic Revival, Medievalism, the Viking Revival and many others. Some revivals mimicked historical styles verbatim, where as others appreciated historical styles more indirectly through the use of revived art techniques and traditions from the past. Examples include the Arts and Crafts movement or the Woodcut Revival. During the 20th century there was also an Egg Tempera Revival associated with artists of various camps of realism in North America. They would not be the first to harken back to this technique, as the Pre-Raphaelites toyed with egg tempera in their quest to recreate the traditions predating Raphael and his contemporaries. In 20th century North America artists appreciated this age-old artistic tradition by honouring its use in their contemporary artwork.</p>
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<p>An appreciation for traditional art methods made egg tempera an appealing medium to experiment with and master for these 20th century realists. Because realism is characterized by the intention to depict subject matter with verisimilitude and avoid stylization, the precision and ultra-detail of egg tempera was perfectly suited to capturing the almost optically photographic imagery of the style. This optical verisimilitude to reality was a feature of 20th century realism, regardless of whether an artist’s subset of realism was a movement such as naturalism (which heralded everyday life) or magic realism (which mimics the seemingly ordinary but inserts fantastical elements).</p>
<p>During the 1960s in Canada, a branch of realism organically grew out of the Maritimes. The group of artists whose work would show certain characteristics developed under the influence of its forerunner, Alex Colville, and indirectly by pioneering American magic realism, Andrew Wyeth. Alex Colville and Andrew Wyeth rose to international acclaim and prominence in the early 1960s for their efforts working in realism, despite the adversity that at this time the international art scene highly favoured the trendiness of abstract art. These two artists and their followers were able to overcome the overwhelming affinity that the art world had for abstraction at the time, and gained recognition for their art individually and as a collective. This included Wyeth and his followers and offspring in the US, and Colville and his pupils in Canada.</p>
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<p>The renowned 20th century Canadian art scholar, Paul Duval, coined a term for this organically developed group of important Canadian realists and wrote a seminal publication about them in the mid-1970s. He called it High Realism, and it truly is an important international art development, and came straight out of Maritime Canada. He noted that following are shared features of High Realist art:</p>
<p><i>Objectivity of vision</i></p>
<p><i>sharpness of definition</i></p>
<p><i>precision of technique</i></p>
<p><i>accuracy of detail</i></p>
<p><i>excellence of craftsmanship</i></p>
<p><i>(From Duval, Paul. High Realism in Canada, 1975)</i></p>
<p>The above features, coupled with a deep respect for traditions in art, would lead many of the High Realists towards egg tempera. This method of painting peaked their interest because it was steeped in history and tackled the accuracy and detail these artists desired in their work. Thus through High Realism in the 1960s, Canadians were prominent in the 20th century revival of egg tempera painting.</p>
<p>There are many important Canadian High Realists who worked in other painting mediums, but because this blog is focused on Canadian involvement in the egg tempera revivals I will not be showcasing their work. I would like to give a peak at artwork by Canadian High Realists done in egg tempera.</p>
<p>Alex Colville used many mediums throughout his career, including tempera. He eventually settled on a modern equivalent that also dried very quickly, called acrylic polymer. Colville is well covered in publications, exhibitions and sales in recent times so I will not give further biographical details as we all know of his success. Another popular Canadian realist that achieved international attention for his artwork is Ken Danby. He had a stable financial existence through numerous professional artistic outlets- such as set design, television and newspaper illustration. He started out dabbling in abstract art during his spare time but was blown away by and Andrew Wyeth exhibition he came across at the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo late in 1962. A fervent commitment to resurrect his earlier interest in realist painting ensued, and he never turned back. He preferred rustic scenes and added his own touch to that which he observed around him. Paul Duval wrote that Danby, “…came to handle the difficult egg tempera medium with an almost virtuoso dexterity. Few artists have wrought from it such a remarkable variety of technical variations from the softest blendings to almost staccato textures.” </p>
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<p>Tom Forrestall was nurtured to be a great draughtsman and artist from early childhood. He revered the work of old masters Titian and Rembrandt and considered a trip to continental Europe to be “one of the most useful experiences in his career.” He too studied under Alex Colville at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. Teaching and working as a cartoonist gave him enough income to be able to take his time painting on the side, and he could therefore begin to work with the labour-intensive egg tempera. Duval noted that Forrestall’s “choice of [egg tempera] was confirmed after examining the originals of Italian 15th century masters whose paintings in tempera on gesso remain as brilliant today as when they were painted.” Although his use of white gessoed panels is the typical support for egg tempera, his came in all sorts of unusual shapes and sizes. He cited ancient classical times as inspiration, as circles and ovals existed in classical art. He used these shapes and medium to project a contemporary perspective onto a lineage of artistic traditions.</p>
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<p>While travelling through continental Europe was an inspiration for Forrestall, artist Hugh Mackenzie claims it was not a creative inspiration to him. His interest in egg tempera and high realism stemmed more from their being technically difficult and precise. His background in the arts was a mechanical illustrator. His job required that he make complex and accurate designs in drawing and he became highly proficient at perspective and intricacies as a draughtsman. Duval indicated that Mackenzie “…believes his three years as a mechanical illustrator deeply affected his future style and themes as a painter.” He also wrote that by 1966 Mackenzie had “perfected his personal egg tempera technique using a subtle combination of light washes and fine cross-hatching to slowly build his forms.”</p>
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<p>These are just a few of the High Realist artists active in Canada from their heydays in the 1960s and onward. Acknowledgement of a handful of others includes Jeremy Smith, Bruce St. Clair, Fred Ross, Christopher Pratt, Christiane Pflug, and Patrick Cox.</p>
<p>By: JILL TURNER</p>Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-55409068578030774122016-01-09T11:37:00.002-08:002016-02-17T09:54:32.830-08:00BACK TO WORK: THE ART OF WORKING LIFE<p>BACK TO WORK: THE ART OF WORKING LIFE</p>
<p>Two years ago in early January I wrote a blog about stretching the holiday season as long as possible like it was done in the period historically called Christmastide. This lasted all the way until January 5th or 6th with Twelfth Night on the eve of Epiphany. It is now past Twelfth Night and the holiday season has officially come to a close. Hundreds of years ago when Twelfth Night was as important a celebration as Christmas day, the Monday after it was called ‘Plough Monday’ and marked the day where everybody resumed their work. This is not unlike today, where many people return to work after enjoying time with friends and family between Christmas and the New Year. Returning to work and taking down all the decorations after extended festivities can be a difficult adjustment. However society couldn’t function unless hundreds of thousands of people are working hard at their jobs to contribute to the fabric of daily life.</p>
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<p>Throughout the ages artists have chosen a multitude of subject matters ranging from the most noble of events to the everyday grind of working life. Depicting people at work has been a subject of interest as far back as Ancient Egypt. The subject of working became forefront for artists in France in the 1850s as they started an art movement that celebrated and beautified the raw truth and reality of ordinary life without a sugar coating (this included depictions of hard work and labour) It was called realism and some big names of the movement include Jean-Francois Millet, Gustave Courbet, Jules Breton, and Jules Bastien-Lepage. Not that many years later across the English Channel in Cornwall, the Newlyn School of artists were following suit and producing painstakingly accurate, yet atmospheric, paintings of ordinary people at work in the fishing villages of the area. The movement expanded throughout Europe, Russia and America.</p>
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<p>People at work became even better established as a subject matter during the First World War, where artists were commissioned to capture the activities of war through an artistic yet truthful eye without any glorification. Canadians were very involved in art documentation during World War I. Social realism continued to be a subject of interest during the interwar years and again very much during the Second World War.</p>
<p>As Canadian art arose into its own national entity from around the mid 19th century, it parallels the rise of the realist movement and thus throughout Canadian art history there has been a readiness to showcase ordinary life and work. From Cornelius Krieghoff onward Canadian artists have happily showcased ordinary working circumstances. Although Canadian art history promises a wealth of enchanting landscapes, artistry and beauty can also be found in the depiction of normal life and labours.</p>
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<p>The following is an assortment of Canadian art that I have chosen to illustrate the presence of working life as a subject in Canadian art. I have tried to cover different periods and regions. Wartime labour and agricultural work are the most prevalent. Perhaps because war effort and food production are crucial to the safety and sustenance of the nation, artists have recognized this and heralded these workers efforts. Some works are in public institutions and others are available at Masters Vancouver.</p>
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<p>I hope you enjoyed these works of art that celebrate work. Now get back to work!</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-86448831150914940362015-12-05T13:27:00.001-08:002016-02-17T13:46:38.554-08:00A TRADITION OF CANADIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS<b>A TRADITION OF CANADIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS</b>
<p>During the holiday season our country’s cherished artists scaled it down a notch to make small but memorable seasonal imagery for Christmas greetings that could be enjoyed by many people. In the colder winter months artists, such as the Group of Seven members and their contemporaries, spent time back in their studios selecting their favorite panel sketches of the year in order to make large-scale masterpieces on canvas. However, it appears that for the holidays they always made time for the more intimate art of Christmas card designing. This included hand-done cards for friends and family and designs for commercial cards as part of their jobs as graphic designers. These lovely little works came in varying printmaking techniques such as lithographs, silkscreens, linocuts, and woodblocks. Some are one-offs and might include hand-tinted highlights and others were made to sell in stores in series.</p>
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<p>Masters Gallery Vancouver held a printmaking exhibition this December, called <i>Masters in Printmaking</i>, which featured a handful of Christmas cards and designs. They have been very popular and well admired. Concurrently The McMichael Collection of Canadian Art in Kleinberg, Ontario has a Christmas card themed show derived from their own holdings and archives, <i>This House was Made for Christmas</i>. In this exhibition, and in our Vancouver show, there are some silkscreen printed Christmas cards. This comes in the wake of a Sampson-Matthews silkscreen exhibition in Masters Gallery Calgary in November to coincide with the launch of a book about Sampson-Matthews prints, <i>Art For War and Peace</i>. These all seemed like good reasons to focus this year’s holiday season blog on Canadian artists and their Christmas cards. Rous & Mann, Sampson-Matthews, and W. Coutts & Co. are a few of the companies that joined with our country’s greatest artists of the 20th century to make artistic Christmas cards.</p>
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<p>An AJ Casson Christmas card available at Masters Gallery Vancouver</a>)</p>
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<p>The custom of Christmas card giving began in the United Kingdom n the 1840s. Improved printing techniques throughout that century allowed for the Christmas card to become much more widespread by the 1860s. Cards also appeared sporadically in the late 1840s in America, but were expensive. An entrepreneurial printer mass produced cards at an affordable rate, and card giving took off late 1870s on this continent. By 1900 Christmas cards were popular all over Europe as well.</p>
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<p>By the early 20th century the Christmas card had become a mainstay tradition of the holiday season in those countries celebrating Christmas around the World. Although it appeared that email greeting cards might threaten the tradition of card giving a little bit, the custom of exchanging well-designed holiday cards has prevailed into the 21st century. There are now a handful of large chain stores devoted to selling high-end designer cards. It even seems as though there is a bit of a nostalgic resurgence of cards having the very vintage feel that harks back to the early card design and style. Throughout the 20th century, artists made cards that typically reflected their own style of artwork (though not always when working with larger graphic design firms). It is therefore a lovely way of seeing some renowned artists works on a smaller scale. For collectors these cards are increasingly popular and hard to come by. The following examples were available for sale in our <i>Masters of Printmaking</i> show.</p>
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<p>Three AY Jackson Christmas cards from the Rous & Mann Canadian Artists series in the 1920s -Masters Gallery Vancouver</p>
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<p>Sampson-Matthews, W. Coutts & Co., and other printing firms teamed up with Canadian artists to create Christmas cards, just as they did with the same artists for larger projects to promote Canadian art with the National Gallery. A.Y. Jackson was a particularly staunch supporter of organizing Christmas card creations with printing firms.The firm Rous & Mann produced a series of Christmas cards called the ‘Canadian Artists Series’ between 1923 and 1929. Household names like AY Jackson, AJ Casson, JW Beatty, Mabel Lockerby, LL Fitzgerald, Anne Savage, Sarah Robertson, Nora Collyer, Clarence Gagnon, Kathleen Morris, Ethel Seath, Paul Caron, Frederick Varley, LAC Panton, and likely more were involved. Then in the early 1930s Jackson approached William Coutts regarding submitting Christmas card designs to continue the tradition of promoting Canadian artists. From this meeting the Canada Painters Series of Christmas cards was set. With the designs of 26 known artists whom also had previously been involved as mentioned above, Coutts launched his series of just under 80 silkscreen Christmas card designs. Coutts pulled each silkscreen design himself by hand, and each therefore has an individual look. Frank Carmichael helped supervise this. The cards were stocked in stores, but were not particularly successful at first launch because the Depression Era had set in and prices were therefore to high for the average buyers. Incidentally, original Coutts 1931 silkscreen card designs are now desirable to collectors.</p>
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<p>William Coutts did not give up, and went to the United States to meet with the Halls, owners of what became the Hallmark Co. in 1932. They agreed to take on a Canadian line of artists Christmas cards, an institution that continued with Hallmark until the 1980s. Hallmark in fact bought shares in W. Coutts & Co. and bought the whole company in the 1940s. Although Coutts’ 1931 silkscreens were unique and the medium attractive, likely for ease and practicality Hallmark used lithography after 1931. There have been a handful of exhibitions that have featured the Coutts series since, including a show and sale at Masters Gallery in Calgary in 2001.</p>
<p>Hopefully the seasonal imagery of these precious little greeting cards fills you with a bit of holiday cheer. Season’s greetings from all of us at Masters Gallery.</p>
BY: JILL TURNER
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-91335494341813465422015-11-10T11:50:00.002-08:002015-11-10T13:04:19.262-08:00MASTERING OUR LAND: A HUNDRED YEARS OF CANADIAN LANDSCAPE ART<p>MASTERING OUR LAND: A HUNDRED YEARS OF CANADIAN LANDSCAPE ART</p>
<p>An exhibition called<i> Embracing Canada</i> has recently opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition looks back through history to a 100-year period of artist interaction with the rugged Canadian landscape. Paintings from 1840 to 1940 chart the changing ways in which artists interpreted their experiences across the varying geographies of the nation. This is a period in which exploration and growth allowed for increased access to far off and remote places. Art production has coincided with the discovery of our lands from early 19th century voyageurs on expeditions, to railway-funded artist trips, and then visionaries finding beauty in the vast northern country. This includes British colonists meticulously documenting the wilderness; as well as newly established forts, villages and towns, and their interaction with the First Nations peoples they encountered. Venturesome artists traveled westwards as the railway was built to help promote settlement and holidaying across the prairies and mountains. By the time the country was settled from east to west with growing populations in the towns and cities, artists like the Group of Seven aimed to use the beauty of the northern landscape for the nationalistic purpose of highlighting the attributes of the country. A century later we are left with a rich mosaic of art that illustrates why it is that landscape art will always hold such a precious place in Canadian art.</p>
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(Cover detail of the exhibition catalogue)
<p>The vast majority of the art that is exhibited in the <i>Embracing Canada </i>exhibition comes from a single private collection that was generously loaned. The collection has been amassed with astute connoisseurship and therefore includes works of art by Canada’s very best. It is a treat to have the works of art from private collections on display for the public, as public institutions are not the only custodians of our country’s masterpieces of art. I often hear comments that all of the best Canadian art should be in public galleries and museums, however these institutions already have quantities of art beyond what they are capable of displaying permanently. Therefore many of the amazing works of art end up in storage and do not see the light of day often or ever. Yet, works of art in private collections are generally on display all the time and often loaned. Typically the owners are passionate about their art and therefore show and educate the art to more friends and family than a painting might see in an institutional basement. It is important to have major works of art that are institutionalized, but it is also good to see great works that are accessible among the population. The art market itself also heightens the interest and prestige of Canadian art by continually drawing attention to how special and desirable our country's best artists are. After all, originally these works of art were owned and cherished by someone(s). Our gallery specializes in historical works of Canadian art, much of which comes from the same period, 1840-1940, which is represented in this show. We love to help put great works of art in the homes of passionate collectors. There they hang and present great opportunities for their custodians to tell their tale and help pass on the story of our artistic interaction with out national landscape.</p>
<p><i>Embracing Canada</i> is a superb collaboration between public and private art collecting, made accessible to visitors and citizens of Vancouver. To compliment this collaboration I have picked a selection of works of art that have been sold at Masters Gallery in the past. These paintings have passed into private hands to be enjoyed and shared by collectors, family and friends, and every once and awhile with the greater public as well. </p>
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<p>Cornelies Krieghoff, Indian Pulling a Tobaggan, oil</p>
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<p>Cornelius Krieghoff, Shooting the Rapids, oil</p>
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<p>Frederick Verner, Caribour Resting, watercolour ,1889</p>
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<p>William Armstrong, Hudson Bay Post, North Shore of Lake Nipigon, 1888, watercolour</p>
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<p>Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, The Great Yoho Valley, 1905 watercolour</p>
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<p>Maurice Cullen, After A Heavy Snowfall, North River, circa 1929 oil</p>
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<p>JW Beatty, Autumn, Algonquin Park 1920 oil</p>
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<p>Anne Savage, Skeena River, oil, 1927 </p>
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<p>Emily Carr, Harbour Scene BC, 1908 watercolour</p>
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<p>Tom Thomson, Woodland Algonquin Park oil</p>
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<p>Arthur Lismer, Autumn Georgian Bay 1938 oil</p>
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<p>Frederick Varley, Lynn Valley, 1935, oil</p>
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<p>Lawren Harris, Icebergs Smith Sound II, 1930, oil</p>
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<p>JEH MacDonald, Mount Odoray, Rockies, oil</p>
<p>Note that these paintings are all past highlights, but there are always great new things coming available in both the Vancouver and Calgary galleries that highlight Canada's landscape over time.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-20743200144085315962015-09-23T16:26:00.001-07:002015-09-23T16:26:29.336-07:00HERE FISHY, FISHY, FISHY: ANGLING IN THE ART WORLD<p>HERE FISHY, FISHY, FISHY: ANGLING IN THE ART WORLD</p>
<p>I’ve heard it told that buying and selling art could be compared to fishing. One casts their line waiting to hook the next best painting to sell, and in turn the great painting becomes bait cast out again in the hopes that it will catch the eye of an excited buyer. Furthermore, I've noticed that plenty of collectors and art lovers also seem to love fishing. In pairing art with fishing, let us have a look at some of our country’s cherished artists having a go at fishing.</p>
<p>A simple Google image search reveals that contemporary artists all across the continent and abroad are painting idyllic scenes of anglers peacefully casting their lines as they fly fish at the bend in a river. Like today, artists’ depicted angling as a relaxing and enjoyable pastime, hobby, or even sport, throughout Canadian art history. I have “fished” around to find a few historical Canadian artists’ renditions of anglers for this laid back little blog. I didn’t intend to pick any particular period over another, I just “reeled in” what I could find. (Puns irresistible!)</p>
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<p>I found many examples of works that depict the happy angler, the most famous of which is Tom Thomson’s The Fisherman. I found quite a few little works on paper, many of which are owned by the National Gallery of Canada. Admittedly, based on the number of contemporary depictions of leisurely fishing subjects, I thought that I might find more works by well know painters that were somewhat equivalent to Thomson’s The Fisherman. However, I quickly realized that despite the fact that angling for sport did not appear as often as I thought, Canadian art history is filled with subjects of the fishing industry and related activities. A recurring theme in Canadian art history is the fishing village, which appears throughout the late 19th and 20th century. Since the nation is surrounded by ocean, and scattered with seemingly infinite lakes and waterways it is no wonder that fishing was depicted often, as it was and still is an important industry for Canada. I have therefore included excellent paintings and prints related to the fishing industry, as it is almost as prevalent a theme as other geographic themes in Canadian art, such as ‘Algoma,’ or ‘Algonquin.’</p>
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<p>Canadian Pacific Railway posters have been featured as exceptional works of art in many other blogs, and they must be mentioned again in this blog. During my search for Canadian angling themes I came up with quite a nice selection of Canadian Pacific Railway tourism posters created to entice the avid angler into holidaying with <i>rod and reel</i>.</p>
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<p>We have now explored a variety of different types of art incorporating fishing; from 19th century sketches to large canvases of Eastern fishing villages and Western fishing vacation promotions. So for anglers and art lovers alike I hope you enjoy some of the imagery presented. Best of luck to those wanting to catch lots of fish, as we try and "catch" some great paintings to have in the gallery this fall/winter season.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
<p>I conclude with a personal favourite fishing themed work of art by Jack Cowin.</p>
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<p><i>Flies (2013)</i> hand-coloured etching</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-23345994127021722972015-09-02T12:42:00.000-07:002015-09-02T15:44:04.627-07:00ILLUSTRIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS: J.E.H. MACDONALD AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT<p>ILLUSTRIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS: J.E.H. MACDONALD AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT</p>
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<p>JEH MacDonald illustrated <i>A Word to US All</i> in 1900. He meticulously did both the surrounding ornamentation and calligraphy by hand. Furthermore, he wrote the poem <i>A Word to Us All</i> himself. <i>A Word to Us All</i> is in the Arts and Crafts style, which gained popularity in North America and Europe during the late 19th and 20th centuries. That MacDonald would have done the design, calligraphy, ornamentation, and written the poem all himself was not uncharacteristic of Arts and Crafts movement participants. Practitioners of the movement tended not to limit themselves and thus typically engaged in all facets of the arts, including the literary arts. The multimodal artist was a feature of the Arts and Crafts and Pre-Raphaelite movements from an early stage through the influence of John Ruskin. Ruskin was both a successful literary figure and draughtsman during his time.</p>
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<p><i>John Ruskin detailed drawing from observation of Venetian gothic architecture and an example of his literature</i></p>
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<P><i>A Wardrobe painted and manufactured for William Morris as a gift from his friends Edward Burne-Jones (painter) and Phillip Webb (architect)</i></p>
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<p>William Morris was the Father of the Arts and Crafts movement and the epitome of a ‘Jack of All Trades.’ He so happened to be rather good at all the trades he engaged in. He was a particularly important figure in book design, as well as being a prolific non-fiction and early fantasy novel writer. It is widely quoted that upon his death at 62 years old, his physician remarked that the cause of death was “…simply being William Morris and having done more work than most ten men.” Morrisian ideals are central to the understanding of book design in JEH MacDonald’s lifetime. MacDonald admired Morris’s Arts and Crafts design. I can think of comparisons between MacDonald and Morris. Like Morris, MacDonald never reached a very old age and was also a perpetually busy man who worked full time as a graphic designer, pioneered the Group of Seven, scouted out the rugged Ontario north, climbed countless mountains in Western Canada, and was a teacher. He is of course remembered most as a member of the Group of Seven, however <i>A Word to Us All</i> is a reminder that MacDonald was a multi-faceted artist with a worldy awareness of current trends in both fine and applied art.</p>
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<p><i>William Morris Kelmscott Press book written and designed by Morris</i></p>
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<p><i>William Morris stained glass and wallpaper designs</i></p>
<p><i>A Word to Us All</i> is a classic example of the Arts and Crafts movement and stylistically the illustrated poem closely follows the original elements of book design perpetuated by William Morris and his contemporaries. We are pleased to have acquired this rare piece of JEH MacDonald’s Arts and Crafts work at Masters Gallery. Resultantly, I decided that since JEH and William Morris shared common design ideals, I would write a little bit about the origins of Morris’s ideal book and the Arts and Crafts movement. Thus we can get an idea from whence MacDonald was inspired and influenced when he made <i>A Word for Us All</i>. He would have been very aware of all the ideology we are about to discuss, which reinforces again that MacDonald was a worldly designer, as well as prominent Canadian landscape artist.</p>
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<i>J.E.H. MacDonald 'A Word to Us All' (1900) ink, gouache on paper (page two)</i></p>
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<p><i>Book designed and printed at the Kelmscott Press by a colleague of William Morris' Jacobus de Voragine</i></>
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<i>J.E.H. MacDonald 'A Word to Us All' (1900) ink, gouache on paper (page three)</i></p>
<p>It was a chain of cultural and artistic phenomena earlier in the 19th century that ultimately led artists to produce the distinctive type of book design seen in <i>A Word to Us All</i>. The roots of the Arts and Crafts book lie in the societal discontent of the time in Great Britain. Backlash and bitterness against the changes wrought by rapid industrialism and growth of capitalism, led Victorians to yearn for the tradition and familiarity of a supposedly ‘better time gone by.’ People chose to look back upon medieval England as a more genuine and simplistic time; the now familiar expression ‘A Merry Olde England’ and other such sentiments appeared. At the time, give or take half a millennium had already past since the medieval era, therefore to Victorians the bygone period was surrounded in mystery and intrigue. This allowed disgruntled Victorians to conjure up their own romantic interpretations of a utopian ‘Merry Olde England,’ in order to escape their contemporary toils and troubles. Thus, Victorians grew selectively fascinated with the more appealing aspects of medieval times. From this phenomenon the gothic and medieval revivals arose in architecture, literature, and fine and applied art. Medievalism provided the kindling that sparked the Arts and Crafts movement to life.</p>
<p>The same John Ruskin that was mentioned in the opening paragraph was additionally a prominent art critic of the time. Medievalism was proliferated by Ruskin and his circle. Medievalists worshipped the culture and productivity of the medieval era. Although it might be a stretch to consider JEH a medievalist, William Morris most definitely was an avid medievalist. As an admirer of Ruskin and father of the Arts and Crafts movement it is no wonder that his medievalism would visually and theoretically infiltrate his own work and consequently Arts and Crafts style.</p>
<p>Morris was in love with the study of medieval society, craftsmanship, architecture, folklore and art. This led him to pour over illuminated manuscripts in libraries and try his own hand at the practice with his best friends in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. We know that Morris was not alone in his interests, albeit he may qualify as one of the most passionate medievalists. Professional illumination using medieval techniques had already been taken up again in Paris in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, as other European countries also suffered similar nostalgia for bygone pre-industrial times. Although ironically done with modern mass printing, a book of glorious designs of old manuscripts was disseminated by Owen Jones and Noel Humphreys. Manuscripts became collectors’ pieces and they started appearing in museum exhibitions in greater number. People began to look dubiously upon the bland colourless mass produced texts they had become accustomed to when compared with handcrafted illuminated masterpieces. Many started asking themselves how they could blend the dazzling qualities of illustrated books from the past with the texts of the day to make them more interesting. Do-it-yourself manuscript illuminating guides were published in the 1860s and copying out old manuscripts became a popular hobby, especially for women.</p>
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<p><i>Example from a manuscript illumination do-it-yourself manual</i></p>
<p>William Morris wasn’t about to ‘merely’ copy out pre-existing manuscript designs verbatim, instead he learned the ancient techniques and took some ideas and designs to help invent his own hybrid of illumination. It is from this pseudo-medieval hybrid of medieval illumination that Morris and his contemporaries adopted that we owe the advent of the distinctive style of Arts and Crafts book illumination and later small-scale private printing presses. There is a famous quote of William Morris’ that can be found within his essays,</p>
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<i><p>If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer a beautiful house; and if I were further asked to name the production next to be longed for, I should answer, a beautiful book.</p></i>
<p>The high regard that Morris gave to ‘beautiful books’ is a testament to how important designing and decorating them would become within the Arts and Crafts movement. A few decades later MacDonald would also lecture on “The Art of the Book,” as he passed on Morrisian ‘beautiful book fervour’ to prospective Canadian artists and advocates.</p>
<p>It was not just the exquisite ornament of medieval manuscripts that interested Morris, but the cultural structure of the middle ages that supported excellence in craftsmanship. Medieval monastics brotherhoods and guilds were two societal structures that offered communal support to craftsmen and tradesmen so that they could excel at their work in a stable and comfortable environment amongst fellow brethren. Morris and his friends wanted to establish something akin to these antiquated fellowships, and first did by way of the ‘Set’ and then Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Morris’ brotherhood friend Edward Burne-Jones worked on illuminating manuscripts with Morris. Their brotherhood would share ideals and principles and support each other in their endeavors. Morris and his friends often rented houses together after they had lived in close quarters together at Oxford University. Medieval monastic brotherhoods and guilds either lived amongst one another in monasteries or shared communal guildhalls. Other Arts and Crafts communes cropped up, such as the Guild of St. George, the Century Guild, the Guild of Handicraft, and the Roycrofters in New York.</p>
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<p>JEH MacDonald visited the Roycrofters with his wife in order to see the studio of lead Roycrofter, Elbert Hubbard in 1900. Hubbard himself was bewitched by Morrisian design principles and ideologies after he visited England in 1894. He wanted to bring the Arts and Crafts Movement to North America. He bought a printing press and named it the Roycroft Press in the footsteps of Morris’ Kelmscott Press. Although these private printing presses did not produce ‘one off’ books like hand-illuminated manuscripts, the whole process of making books on these small presses was very hands-on and the same design elements were applied. The very limited numbers of books produced were still typically embellished. Typically beforebeing printed, an illustrated version was made that would have looked like the hand painted<i> A Word To Us All</i>. JEH MacDonald likely intended that <i>A Word to Us All </i>would be translated into a printed book. BY MacDonald’s time the Arts and Crafts book and printing press fervor gripped far afield and the Arts and Crafts pseudo-medieval/ pseudo-gothic revival design elements had solidified a definitive style of its own. This is evident in the lettering, foliage and miniatures when comparing <i>A Word to Us All</i> with other work by William Morris, the Roycrofters, and other Arts and Crafts illustrated books.</p><p><i>Details from MacDonald's A World to Us All</i></p>
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<p>It was thought that JEH set about producing the illustrated pages of his poem <i>A Word to Us All </i>with the intent of submitting it for a potential position with the Roycrofters. As it was “a message to all Canadians,” the poem was likely too nationalistic to catch the attention of the American Roycrofters. Regardless, JEH went on to work at a graphic design firm in London instead and later returned to Toronto to work for Grip Ltd. Grip Ltd. would have a great influence on MacDonald because this is where he would meet Tom Thomson and fellow Group of Seven comrades. I cannot help but make a comparison between the fellowship that formed between the artists of the Group of Seven and William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, or other Arts and Crafts groups. In conclusion, <i>A Word to Us All</i> is a well-done and intricately executed work of art. It crisscrosses the boundaries of many art forms: such as drawing, painting, calligraphy and poetry. It is a true example of Arts and Crafts illustration, with elements derived from a style developed out of 19th century pseudo-medieval and gothic design. MacDonald’s work holds a worthy place amongst the world’s Arts and Crafts design of the time, and he himself was a well-rounded man like William Morris whom he admired.</p>
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<i>J.E.H. MacDonald 'A Word to Us All' (1900) ink, gouache on paper (page four)</i></p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-69761897347429950232015-07-28T13:53:00.002-07:002015-07-28T13:53:19.767-07:00PAINTING THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE <p>PAINTING THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE</p>
<p>To date it has been one of the driest summers on record in Vancouver. As a result the elements have wreaked havoc on the geography of British Columbia (and other Western provinces) this month. Over 250 forest fires were burning across the province by mid-July. For a week earlier this month smoke engulfed the city of Vancouver and the nearby busy resort areas along the Sea to Sky corridor (Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton) and the Sunshine Coast. It has finally rained for a couple days and will hopefully provide a little bit of relief on the environment.</p>
<p>Watching it finally rain from inside the gallery got me thinking about celebrated Canadian landscape paintings and how often the weather they depict is beautiful, tranquil and idealistic. There is an abundance of imagery depicting clear and crisp fall days and snow-clad villages after the snow has fallen and the skies have cleared. But Canada is a vast northern country, and the weather is hardly easy on Canadians. The Scandinavians used their northern landscape in art as a tool for nationalism, and one of the ideas behind this was that, although beautiful, the tough and unforgiving nature of the rugged north and its harsh environment made the dwellers of the land a strong, persevering and resourceful group of people. MacDonald and Harris must have considered this aspect of the theory behind using the northern landscape for national pride in their paintings as well, when they returned home enthusiastic from viewing the Scandinavian art exhibition in Buffalo, New York in 1912.</p>
<p>It may be more pleasing to the eye to depict sunshine and fresh snowfalls, however it is also quite difficult to capture the elements of nature at work in paintings. Elements such as rain, falling snow, wind, fire and smoke appear especially difficult to emulate in most fine art mediums. These natural effects are partly difficult to depict because oil paint is opaque but smoke, clouds, mist, fire, snow and rain are all atmospheric and semi-translucent. Furthermore, in reality most of these elements are moving at a considerable pace, where as a 2-dimensional painting is not. Nevertheless, I have sorted through some Canadian art history books and found a handful of examples whereby Canada’s favourite landscape artists have captured rain, snow, stormy weather, and scorched landscapes after forest fires in an attempt to represent a diversity of natural effects on Canada's landscape.</p>
<p>A.Y. Jackson travelled to the Arctic twice, and this canvas depicts a very foreboding dark sky rolling in over the frigid landscape.</p>
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<p>(A.Y. Jackson, The Beothic at Bache Post, Ellesmere Island, 1929 (National Gallery of Canada))</p>
<p> J.E.H. MacDonald has presented and interesting stylized approach to a rain storm in this scene of the Rocky Mountains.</p>
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<p>(J.E.H. MacDonald, Rain in the Mountains, 1924 (Art Gallery of Ontario))</p>
<p>Here we have more bad weather by A.Y. Jackson, but this time the dark precipitous weather is not rolling in, it has already arrived! It is very difficult to capture the act of snowfall versus already fallen snow, especially when the ground is not yet snow covered. The artist must attempt to make contrasting white snow against the dark background appear to have a sense of the movement across the otherwise static picture surface. Jackson has accomplished this in his canvas from 1920, along with another sketch from the same year. It appears as though 1920 was a year in which Jackson really played around with different weather patterns in his sketches and canvases.</p>
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<p>(A.Y. Jackson, First Snow Algoma, circa 1920, (McMichael Canadian Art Collection))</p>
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<p><p>(A.Y. Jackson, First Snow, Georgian Bay, 1920 (Art Gallery of Ontario))</p>
<p>Jackson also painted this early spring storm earlier that year.</p>
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<p>(A.Y. Jackson, March Storm, Georgian Bay, 1920 (National Gallery of Canada))</p>
<p>Especially in Eastern Canada, during the warmer months of the year the weather can change rather abruptly. A storm can roll in over fair weather in a matter of minutes. As these flash storms suddenly roll across the horizon they are reminiscent of a battle front line marching forward in unison across a field. Casson has perfectly captured the ominous nature of a big storm approaching. You can feel as though you are there waiting for it to start pouring at any moment. </p>
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<p>(A.J. Casson, Approaching Storm, Lake Superior, c. 1929-30 (National Gallery of Canada))</p>
<p>Arthur Lismer adroitly depicted torrential rain and the feeling of forcefully blowing wind right in the midst of a storm. This is the sort of storm you would expect to roll in shortly in Casson’s Approaching Storm, Lake Superior.</p>
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<p>(Arthur Lismer, A Westerly Gale, Georgian Bay, 1916 (National Gallery of Canada))</p>
<p>So far we have seen mastery with the paintbrush as Group of Seven members successfully tackled depictions of wind, rain and snowfall. Other natural elements are equally hard to represent. It has already been mentioned that the opacity of paint is less conducive to the depiction of more transparent natural phenomena. Smoke is a good example of this. Franklin Carmichael found a way to accurately depict billowing smoke piles rising realistically. </p>
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<p>(Franklin Carmichael, The Nickel Belt (Ottawa Art Gallery))</p>
<p>Although the northern lights are not in the category of ‘bad’ weather, the continued movement and transparency of this natural phenomenon would be difficult to portray in painting. Tom Thomson managed to paint a beautiful and tranquil nighttime painting of the Northern Lights in 1916.</p>
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<p>(Tom Thomson, Northern Lights, 1916 (National Gallery of Canada))</p>
<p>Thinking about all of the recent forest fires propelled me to write this blog about the harshness of the elements in Canada. However, thankfully none of our celebrated artists hung around in the wilderness to sketch a wildfire in action. The potential dangers of that would have been too extreme, especially if the wind picked up and spread the fire quickly. There are however some well-known paintings by Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris that depict the harsh aftermath of forest fires on the landscape.</p>
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<p>(Tom Thomson, Fire-Swept Hills, 1915 (Art Gallery of Ontario))</p>
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<p>(Lawren Harris, Lake Superior Sketch no. 63, circa 1926 (National Gallery of Canada) </p>
<p>On that note, let us hope that the rest of the summer provides just enough rainfall in Western Canada to keep the forests from turning into the scorched landscapes painted above but still plenty of lovely weather to provide artists with ample ideal subject matter.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-7675796734025815242015-06-25T14:13:00.004-07:002015-06-25T14:13:54.105-07:00THE GARDEN AS ART: Sculpture Gardens in Canada and Abroad<p>THE GARDEN AS ART: Sculpture Gardens in Canada and Abroad</p>
<p>Around this time last year I wrote a blog called <i>The Garden in Art</i> as a nice topic to mark the start of summertime. I was just reminded of this blog, which focused on paintings depicting gardens, when a life-sized Leo Mol sculpture <i>Sunny (1978)</i> and the accompanying book about the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden arrived in the gallery this week. I thought I would write again about art and gardens, but from another standpoint. This time instead of writing about imagery of gardens, I will focus on the gardens that contain art themselves; in the form of art sculpture that can weather the outdoors.</p>
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<p>Throughout the ages, art sculpture has been placed within gardens to enhance the décor. Some art sculptures are site-specifically installed as major components of a garden, and in the past have been quite elaborately designed. Other gardens exist especially to house a collection of sculpture by a single artist, or artists. Many varieties of the sculpture garden exist, and around the world there are sculpture gardens to suit various tastes from ancient to contemporary. They are outdoor galleries and museums that showcase artwork. The sculptural mediums of art that can be found in gardens are no less artistically creative than the paintings and drawings that hang indoors on the walls of homes, galleries and museums. Beginning with Canada’s very own Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, let us take a tour of some of the World’s great sculpture gardens.</p>
<p>The Leo Mol Scultpure Garden was created in 1992, and has expanded twice since then. It includes outdoor gardens of nearly 3 acres and 300 bronze sculptures (and a studio and gallery) within Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park. It is a very popular destination for locals and visitors alike. Leo Mol is a Ukrainian-born Canadian artist who worked primarily in ceramics and bronze, and won many awards and commissions. He completed many figural works, including portraiture of Terry Fox, John Diefenbaker and Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. The subject matter in the garden is diverse, and in a lovely botanical setting.</p>
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<p>I can think of some International equivalents to the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden that showcase the art of a single artist. Probably the most famous of these is the Garden at the Musee Rodin in Paris. They have a large garden dispersed with bronze casts of many of Rodin’s most well known sculptures, such as the Gates of Hell, The Thinker, and the Burghers of Calais. The garden is situated on 7 ½ acres surrounding the Musee Rodin.</p>
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<p>Across the English Channel, in Hertfordshire is another sculpture garden dedicated to an Internationally famous artist of the 20th century, Henry Moore. The Henry Moore Foundation maintains a 70 acre garden with large-scale sculptures of his work at Perry Green. I should note that there are other sculpture gardens with Henry Moore sculptures elsewhere in England and the United States as well, and his work can also be found in gardens mixed with sculpture by other artists. We will mention a few of these shortly.</p>
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<p>In Oslo, Norway there is an interesting solo-artist garden within the large central urban park, Frogner Park. This sculpture garden is a little bit different in that the sculptures are not just placed within the garden, but were created as an installation that is an architectural component of the park itself. This massive interactive installation was done by artist Gustav Vigeland, and is now a much-loved feature of the city of Oslo. The structural permanence of Vigeland garden within the landscape is reminiscent of the highly architectural sculpture designed for gardens in the Italian Renaissance.</p>
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<p>There are even more sculpture gardens around the world that are dedicated to displaying the work of not just one artist, but that of many artists. They vary in style and content quite significantly, from the gardens of the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the yearly garden exhibitions of contemporary sculpture at Chatsworth House and Gardens in Derbyshire, called <i>Beyond Limits</i> hosted by Sothebys.</p>
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<p>Other gardens with modern and contemporary art include the 158-acre Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the 40-acre Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee which has over 50 sculptures including famous Russian Alexander Archipenko. The Yorkshire Sculpture Garden bosts sculpture by Joan Miro, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and many others. Set in a National Park in the Netherlands, the Kroller-Muller Museum and Sculpture Garden has 75 acres filled with sculpture by artists such as Rodin, Claus Oldenburg, Jean Dubuffet, Henry Moore, Lucio Fontana and other contemporary monumental works. Most of these are quite large, and cover many acres in beautiful settings.</p>
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<p>I mentioned above that I found a parallel between the in situ architectural element of the Vigeland Gardens in Oslo and those of the Italian Renaissance. The historian in me can’t help but also show some imagery from sculpture gardens of eras gone by. With the exception of the Vigeland Gardens in Frogner Park, most of the 20th and 21st century sculpture gardens that I have illustrated thus far are outdoor spaces where individual freestanding sculptures have been placed within the garden. However, in the past a lot of the sculptures meant for gardens were built to stay in situ as architectural elements of the garden, and were not necessarily freestanding objects that could be moved around if necessary.</p>
<p>Architectural sculpture was an integral part of grand scale gardens throughout many periods of the past. Most of the Italian Renaissance gardens of the nobility are like this, and show spectacular displays of sculpture in the form of fountains, grottos, capriccio ruins and fantastical beasts all carved in stone. Like with painting, sculpture in Italian Renaissance gardens changed according to the trends between the early Renaissance to the High Renaissance and then to the Mannerist style of the Late Renaissance. During the High Renaissance the ducal d’Este family created the gardens at the Villa de’Este in Tivoli (1550-1572) which survive today. In the late Renaissaince, Mannerism in painting lent to the exaggeration of features so that in contrast to the perfect linear, orderly geometric, atmospheric structure of High Renaissance painting, their was a shift to a less orderly and more fantastical style. This is seen in the gardens of this period as well, where the grotesque and unusual prevail. The best example of this is the surviving Sacro Bozco Garden at Bomarzo (1552-1584).</p>
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<p>This tradition of over the top magnificence carried on into the 18th century, where at Versailles we see architectural sculpture in the gardens of Marie Antoinette. Also at Versailles is magnificent monumental fountain and hydraulic masterpiece, called the Neptune Fountain. The fountain is carved with elaborate mythological subjects, and to this very day you can still watch the show of waterworks to orchestral music booming throughout the park.</p>
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<p>Whether a garden is adorned with site specific architectural sculpture or scattered with free-standing art work, they are equally as impressive a place to witness outstanding masterpieces of art as from within a gallery, or museum. The Leo Mol Sculpture Garden appears to be a very tranquil and beautiful place with an abundance of artwork by one of the nation’s best sculptors of the 20th century. This garden, along with all of the others highlighted worldwide in this blog, illustrates just one other way and form that art permeates into life and culture in many ways. I hope you all will get to enjoy visiting a garden or two this summer.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-50819056469990156472015-05-09T15:47:00.000-07:002015-05-29T10:26:55.261-07:00URBANITY IN ART HISTORY: Canadian Artists in Towns and Cities<p>URBANITY IN ART HISTORY: Canadian Artists in Towns and Cities</p>
<p>A recent highlight in the gallery was a lovely little oil on panel by historical Royal Canadian Academy member John Young Johnstone. It is a fine impressionistic example of the observations of turn of the century urban life. Landscape paintings hold a special place in Canadian art history, but this does not mean that our artists never sketched or painted their observations and interpretations of cities and towns. The peoples and places of urban areas offered artists a wide variety of subject choices; either intimate or monumental. Bustling crowds, colourful billboards, interactions of daily life, and architecture co-mingled with greenery and rivers all offered an abundance of subject matter.</p>
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<p>Canadian artists of the past painted cities and towns at home and abroad. Our cities were not populous to the magnitude that they are now, but they still offered artists plenty to paint. Canadians studying and living abroad also painted their interpretations of European, African, and American cities.</p>
<p>Most artists will have tried their hand at urban scenes, even if landscape art was their strength. For example, JEH MacDonald of the Group of Seven experimented with Toronto urbanity early on in his career and produced one of his most remembered canvases Tracks and Traffic in 1912. An example later in the 20th century is EJ Hughes oil on canvas of the city of Calgary. It is a vista of the cityscape from 1957. Hughes is most known for his scenes of coastal and interior British Columbia.</p>
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<p>A handful of historical artists focused quite a significant amount of time on urban subject matter, and excelled at it. A few that come to mind in both the 19th and early 20th centuries are William Raphael, Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith, James Wilson Morrice, Lawren Harris and David Milne. This is not to say that other artists of high calibre (like Johnstone, or John Lyman) have not produced fabulous city works.
These artists found a way of making life in town markets, relaxing cafes and distinctive architecture uniquely their own.</p>
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<p>Morrice was fascinated with many cities throughout Europe and Northern Africa, and is known for his Paris, Venice, and Tangiers scenes. Bell-Smith focused on London life, and sometimes Paris.
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<p>Both Harris and Milne devoted periods in their early careers to urban landscapes, and in for both artists these works have remained some of the most sought after from their oeuvres on the art market. Milne specialized in distinctively coloured interpretations of New York City, and Harris was deeply passionate about the less fortunate districts of inner city Toronto. Harris is often referred to as the father of the Group of Seven and a champion of the Northern landscape, yet to-date 3 out of the top 5 selling Harris paintings on the public market have been Harris urban neighborhood scenes.</p>
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<p>I hope this small selection of urban masterpieces reminds us all of how diverse Canadian art history is, and that many artists created masterpieces beyond the realm of pure landscape art in our past.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-16851726705630461462015-04-28T13:32:00.002-07:002015-04-28T13:32:48.296-07:00A SECOND YEAR OF ART AND IDEAS: A CHRONICLE OF WEBLOGS<p>A SECOND YEAR OF ART AND IDEAS: A CHRONICLE OF WEBLOGS<p>
COMPLIMENTARY COPIES AVAILABLE IN THE VANCOUVER AND CALGARY GALLERIES
Masters Gallery was very appreciative of all the compliments received last year when we first published a hard copy edition of <i>A Year of Art and Ideas: A Chronicle of Weblogs</i>. We were busy posting more blogs online over the past year, and decided to produce a second edition of fifteen blogs from 2014. We endeavored to keep the blog topics fresh and interesting; and thus take you on a journey with fine art to varying periods and places across the country and abroad. If you enjoyed our first year of blogs, we hope that you enjoy these as much or more.
Please drop by either of the galleries to pick-up a copy, or contact us at 604-558-4244 in Vancouver or 403-245-2064 in Calgary to request a copy.
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<p>Art books have been a great inspiration for my blog topics so far. <i>The Garden in Art</i> and <i>Medicine in Art</i> were two books that inspired blogs last year. A book from my own little collection is the inspiration for this blog. The book is called <i>Great Smaller Museums of Europe</i> and I have decided to take this European topic and apply the idea to Canada.</p>
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<p>So many amazing masterpieces adorn the walls of Europe’s large and prestigious public institutions. During my travels I have also had the opportunity to encounter masterpieces of art in some of the smaller institutions across Europe that are mentioned in <i>Great Smaller Museums of Europe</i>. It is always such a lovely surprise to go to a smaller venue and find well-known masterpieces one is fond of, especially when it is not expected. It is also a bonus that these works of art can be seen in more intimate settings, in contrast to the way one ends up viewing the <i>Mona Lisa</i> amongst a crowd of people in the Louvre. I have had similar experiences in our own country.</p>
<p>A memorable example for me was a trip to the Tom Thomson Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario. I made a weekend pilgrimage to the Bruce Peninsula a few hours northwest of Toronto especially to see this gallery. The collection of Thomson paintings was impressive, but this gallery also hosts great travelling exhibitions. In this instance they were having a World War I art show, and a great canvas by Paul Nash that I had tried to locate in London a few years earlier was hanging on the walls in Owen Sound. I talk about this in more detail in the blog <i>Lest We Forget</i>. This goes to show that there are unsuspecting places to see fabulous art in Canada as well. I was further reminded of this when thinking about all of the great art that my alma mater has in its museum, the McMaster Museum of Fine Art.</p>
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<p>I thought more about Canadian equivalents to small galleries and museums that house masterpieces of art history. Canada has a number of large institutions with the nation’s best art. The National Gallery of Canada, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, The Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the McLaughlin Gallery, and the Glenbow Museum and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria are a handful of Canada’s major public institutions. However, there are plenty of smaller venues within which one can find exceptional historical art.</p>
<p>My blog will highlight a few of these small museums across the country, in the same way that galleries and museums across Europe were singled out in the book <i>Great Smaller Museums of Europe</i>. In the opening line of Stourton’s introduction he states that “the book should probably be called ‘Great Smaller-and-Mid-sized Museums,” but no publisher would accept such a turkey.” I will not deviate far from this statement either and will really be highlighting small-to-mid-sized galleries as well. These include regional galleries and the galleries of mid-sized urban areas, private museums and art collections, and the collections of universities. There are enough of them that I will only be breaking the tip of the iceberg on this topic. I will start with museums in the west and move eastwards with reasons why I think each gallery is worth a visit (or at least an online visit!)</p>
<p>The Royal BC Museum isn’t exactly small, as it houses objects of interest from natural history and human history (such as archaeology and ethnology collections). It has vast holdings, and has been around since the end of the 19th century. Yet it isn’t somewhere you might expect to find an abundance of fine art. To the contrary, The Royal BC Museum holds the largest array of archival material relating to Emily Carr as well as 100 paintings. But the museum also has watercolour and oil paintings by Carr, particularly of totem pole subjects. Many of the best examples are in the United Kingdom this year at the Dulwich Picture Gallery for the successful Emily Carr show. When they are next back at the Royal BC Museum and on display, it would be well worth a trip to see them. On their website, they </p>
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<p>Moving across the Straight of Georgia to mainland British Columbia, I have chosen a Vancouver gallery that is nestled between high rises in the downtown core. The Bill Reid Gallery is another one that is well worth the visit. Although somewhat hidden, it is less than two blocks away from the much larger Vancouver Art Gallery and nothing a map can’t help to locate. Like Emily Carr, Bill Reid is one of British Columbia’s most celebrated artists of the 20th century. The gallery was founded in 2008 in order to perpetuate the legacy of Reid's art. The permanent collection at the Bill Reid gallery highlights some of his most incredible metalwork from all periods of his career. Progressing through the gallery, one can see the stylistic changes and advances that Reid made throughout his life. After studying the detailed intricacies of his jewellery in the permanent collection, one exits into the main hall to be confronted with Reid’s impressive monumental bronze frieze, Mythic Messengers.</p>
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<p>Bill Reid <i>Milky Way Necklace</i> and <i>Nanasimget Bracelet</i> (at the Bill Reid Gallery, Vancouver, BC)</p>
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<p>Surrounded by ancient mountains in the destination town of Banff, Alberta is the Whyte Museum. People flock to Banff for its natural beauty and outdoor activities today, and so did artists throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. As a result, the Whyte Museum has ‘area-specific’ artwork by Canada’s finest artists in our history. This includes artists who are renowned for having important ‘Rocky Mountain’ components to their oeuvre, such as: JEH MacDonald, Lawren Harris and Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith. This gallery was opened by the artist and philanthropist couple Peter and Catherine Whyte. They were originally from Boston, but made the Canadian Rockies their home and passion. Setting up the gallery was a perfect way for them to act as advocates of the art, culture, and landscape of the Rocky Mountains.</p>
<p>As mentioned earlier, universities are often the beneficiaries of top-notch art collections. I already mentioned my own alma mater’s gallery at McMaster University, where I have fond memories of learning amongst top quality Old Master European art as well as great Group of Seven panels. In Alberta, the University of Lethbridge holds the most extensive collection of art by 20th century master Nicholas de Grandmaison. The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery not only has this extensive collection, it has digitized it so that it can be easily used for research. The family of de Grandmaison gifted the collection to the university.</p>
<p>I think of the Prairie Provinces as both having a high ratio of talented and creative artists throughout history as well as great patronage. As a result, the remarkable collection of a connoisseur who had an excellent eye for good art by great artists makes up the basis of what is now the Mendel Art Gallery. I have not been to this gallery myself, but based on the artwork illustrated in a publication for the opening of the gallery in 1964, I can be assured that this gallery’s permanent collection is impeccable.</p>
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<p>Although hardly ‘small,’ the Winnipeg Art Gallery is a good example of a superb public institution in a mid-sized urban centre. This gallery was established in 1912, after a group of businessmen got together under the shared pretences that communities benefited from art. It has been expanding ever since, and is a first class establishment. The gallery has an excellent history of having good exhibitions. The gallery owns one of Frank Johnston’s most well known Lake of the Woods period canvases, called Serenity Lake of the Woods, painted later in 1922. The gallery always seems to be participating in the best travelling exhibitions across the country. Their permanent collection represents all periods in Canadian art history well, and includes rare 19th century works by artists like William Raphael, Robert Clow Todd and Paul Kane. They also have George Agnew Reid’s The Story from 1890. Another masterpiece that is a highlight in this gallery is Tom Thomson’s canvas Early Snow.</p>
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<p>We have now moved this discussion into eastern Canada. I have given Ontario a kick-start by already mentioning the McMaster Museum of Fine Art at McMaster University and the Tom Thomson Gallery in Owen Sound. There are two other university galleries that I would like to mention. The first is the University of Toronto Art Collection in the University Art Centre. This collection has significant paintings by the Group of Seven and Painters Eleven, as well as the famous 19th century English painter, JMW Turner. The second university gallery is the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University. Queen’s has an impressive 16,000 works of art in their collection with a good focus on historical Canadian and European paintings. I am certain there are plenty of treasures in the galleries of old and established universities in Eastern Canada, but I can’t focus just on those as I would like to mention other types of small galleries.</p>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdsFSZXvF8bgyCTj6ZhPAMZt2AloN16kWTCGlrimbpprldt7SvaewfGv2VryRETNgoHaNj_GiXm1u5nasOEe_O-JSbq9pIVHSSidJX5iHj0c1WSUKUkRSOTwGsvnoIFDe8IKXw_1D0hYY/s1600/etheringtonLismer.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGdsFSZXvF8bgyCTj6ZhPAMZt2AloN16kWTCGlrimbpprldt7SvaewfGv2VryRETNgoHaNj_GiXm1u5nasOEe_O-JSbq9pIVHSSidJX5iHj0c1WSUKUkRSOTwGsvnoIFDe8IKXw_1D0hYY/s400/etheringtonLismer.png" /></a><p>Arthur Lismer, <i>Quebec Village (St. Hilarion) 1926</i> oil on canvas (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)</p>
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<p>The last gallery in Ontario that I will bring up is the Art Gallery of Hamilton. This mid-sized museum is well worth a visit if you are in Hamilton. This gallery has some famous Canadian paintings that you might be surprised reside there instead of in the National Gallery or the AGO. For example, Lawren Harris’ canvases Hurdy Gurdy and Ice House, Lake Superior both belong to the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The gallery also houses Tom Thomson’s canvas The Birch Grove, Autumn (1915-1916). There is also a lovely collection of paintings by the 19th century Canadian master, William Blair Bruce. The group of Bruce paintings includes most of the examples of his work that are illustrated in scholarly publications. Blair Bruce’s importance in Canadian art history has recently been reconsidered with a seminal new publication about him). The gallery's first exhibition was a show of Blair Bruce's paintings in 1912. 29 of 33 paintings in that first show are now in the gallery's permanent collection. They were given to the gallery by Bruce's widow under the pretext that they be housed in a suitable venue. This sparked the incentive for the gallery to acquire a good space and expand their collection. The gallery has had numerous relocations and upgrades (as recently as 2005). </p>
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<p>Quebec is also a treasure trove of museums and galleries, and has some of the country’s best large-scale museums too. This is not surprising considering the rich history of Quebec. For this reason I will choose to focus on a venue that contains early art from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The Ursulines were the first female religious educators to arrive in North America alongside Jesuit missionaries. They have been in Quebec since 1639. Over hundreds of years the Ursulines have acquired an extensive historical collection of Canadian and European art and artifacts. The museum was established in 1936 in order for the public to have access to the collection. The Musee des Ursulines de Quebec also has a large Jesuit collection of pre-1800s paintings. Many of the works cited in the first chapters of The Concise History of Canadian Art can be found in this museum. The museum is housed in a 19th century building just outside the walls of the heritage monastery.</p>
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<p> will conclude our cross-country jaunt through great small museums of Canada with a couple in the Maritimes. A mid-size gallery of national repute can be found in Fredericton, New Brunswick. I am referring to the Beaverbrook Gallery. Built-upon the foundations of Lord Beaverbrook’s collection, the gallery offers thorough coverage of the history of western art spanning many centuries. Lord Beaverbrook was a wealthy baron in England, but he spent his childhood in the maritimes, and thus gave many cultural gifts to the area. The gallery It has a substantial Canadian collection, and includes some of Cornelius Krieghoff’s best work. A traveling show that featured masterpieces from this collection went to Florida in recent years.</p>
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<p>I am going to end with one final university gallery that is also in the Maritimes. The Owens Gallery at Mount Allison University is Canada’s oldest university gallery open to the public. The base of the collection was purchased in 1885 for students to study and research. The gallery officially opened in 1885. To this day it has retained great art of the 19th and 20th century. It is a great surprise to see two exceptional paintings by the great 19th century English academician Sir Alma Tadema and the Pre-Raphaelite star Edward Burne-Jones. Another interesting thing about the Owens Gallery is that it is the only public institution to have a collection of all Alex Colville's 47 serigraphs.</p>
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<p>I hope everyone enjoyed a cross-country survey of a handful of Canada's best smaller and mid-sized galleries and museums. There are treasures nestled in corners of the country, and I hope everyone gets a chance to visit some of the places mentioned in the blog, or similar museums and galleries.</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-42717857303542829302015-02-14T11:06:00.005-08:002015-02-14T11:06:54.913-08:00THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND THE CANADIAN CONTRIBUTION<p>THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT AND THE CANADIAN CONTRIBUTION</p>
<p>The Canadian art that is most remembered from the late 19th and early 20th centuries is impressionistic and neo-impressionistic in style. Renowned Canadian artists of these formative years were primarily influenced by French art, either directly of indirectly. However at this time Canada was influenced by Britain for almost everything else. As a part of the Commonwealth, a majority of the population were British immigrants themselves at the turn of the 20th century. Thus I have often wondered why a highly influential worldwide art movement that was kindled in Britain around that time never fully burgeoned in Canada like it did elsewhere, despite Canada being a dominion of the British Empire. I am referring to the Arts and Crafts movement. There are hints of its presence here and there so I wonder if it might be more widespread than meets the eye, and just is not focused on in scholarship. Or despite some remnants of its presence, perhaps for certain reasons it was just never quite as popular in Canada. Elsewhere the Arts and Crafts movement was hugely popular, it moved from Great Britain across Continental and Northern Europe and to the United States in various guises. In Britain alone the Arts and Crafts Movement overlapped conceptually and aesthetically with many other groups, guilds, styles and sub-movements. Simultaneous and near simultaneous connections with the Arts and Crafts movement included the Medieval and Gothic revivals, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Glasgow School of Art, Symbolism, Aestheticism and Art Nouveau. As these movements swept across Europe the recognizable styles and ideologies often branched off into regional sub-movements of art and design, such as the Viking Revival in Scandinavia, the Dutch De Stijl, the Jugenstil in Germany, the Vienna Secession in Austria, the National Romantic Style in Finland, and the Abramtsevo Colony in Russia. Symbolism, Aestheticism and Art Nouveau were also very popular in Central and Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.</p>
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<p>The Arts and Crafts movement and its related movements incorporated not just fine art, but decorative and applied arts and design, architecture, and even literature. In fact, it was romantic literature that was an inspiration to the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris in the first place. William Morris is often considered the father of the Arts and Crafts movement. I wrote my MA thesis on his illuminated manuscripts, which he did with his Pre-Raphaelite friends. It is one example of the crossover that existed between fine and applied arts within the Arts and Crafts movement. Morris was involved in all facets of fine and applied arts from book illumination and printing, to furniture and textile design and much more. In the wake of Morris’ bustling activities, talented visionaries took book illustration and private printing presses to a new level of excellence, and the design and craftsmanship of furniture and household decorations flourished. Examples of those who took up the torch upon Morris’ death were Aubrey Beardsley in illustration and furniture design, John Dearle and Co. in textile production, and Gustav Stickley in America. This is just the smallest selection of innovators in applied and decorative arts. Canadians also looked to William Morris’ model for the creation and production of quality crafted arts in forming their own likeminded firms and societies. You may be surprised at some of the Canadian artists who engaged in overlap with applied arts and designs, as I will hopefully illustrate next.</p>
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<p>At present many Canadians are familiar with William Morris (or at least would recognize his textiles) and the Arts and Crafts Movement (widely referred to in America as Craftsmen Style in architecture) Morris’ textiles adorn gift cards, notebooks, pencils, stationary, and there are even gardening tools patterned with his famous designs. There are societies worldwide celebrating his work, including a William Morris Society in Canada that is based out of Toronto. In fact, Canada plays host to one of the foremost scholarly journals on the subject of the Arts and Crafts called <i>The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies</i> published out of York University, Toronto. So, if there is so much interest in the movement in general in Canada today, why has there not been much recognition of Canada’s own contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement in mainstream Canadian Art History so far? Even if it was not as prevalent as it was in other countries, there indeed were Canadian artists and designers doing exceptional work in the Arts and Crafts style, that is noteworthy and worth consideration. So let’s have a look. What is even more interesting is that some of the most distinguished artists in Canadian art history also engaged in other productivity that was in the Arts and Crafts style. I would like to highlight a small selection of these artists that were surprisingly adept and knowledgeable about the international arts and crafts movement, as evidenced in their work on par with British, Continental or American artists and designers. I also wanted to mention one very accomplished Arts and Crafts painter-designer who was not active as a fine art painter in any other capacity on the side of his commercial art. He is somewhat forgotten in mainstream Canadian art history, but was a part of the art scene in Toronto at the turn of the century and would have known the Group of Seven and prominent Academicians of the time through involvement with the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. I will discuss this artist shortly.</p>
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<p>There is one recent publication that has helped bring some attention to the Canadian Arts and Crafts practitioners of the early 20th century. The National Gallery of Canada had an exhibition and published a comprehensive catalogue called <i>Artists, Architects, and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918</i> last year by Charles Hill. This publication and show brought many of the activities related to the Arts and Crafts movement in Canada to limelight and thus contributed greatly to a better overall picture of the art scene in Canada at the opening of the 20th century.</p>
<p>George Agnew Reid is remembered well in Canadian art history for being one of the earliest members of the Royal Canadian Academy of artists and, and for being a master of Academic genre painting. <i>The Foreclosure of the Mortgage</i> is generally considered his piece-de-resistance. Most surprisingly Reid was very deeply involved with the Arts and Crafts movement. The extent of his involvement was unknown to me until I got a copy of the National Gallery’s book. <i>Artists, Architects, and Artisans</i> is riddled with George Reid’s phenomenal mural paintings, furniture design, and even more astonishingly gifted ‘Craftsmen’ architectural and interior designs. At the point where I reached a chapter in this book devoted to his architectural endeavours I actually questioned to myself whether or not I was still reading about the same George Reid that I know. By the volume of his Arts and Crafts design output; I am amazed it is not for this aspect of his career that he is more recognized than for his Academic paintings. Certainly it would appear to me as though he was more prolific at mural painting and design that he was decades earlier with his Academic painting (which of course are also first class).</p>
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<p>I scarcely need to introduce Tom Thomson. We know this individual spirit for his ability to capture the essence of the land in his rapid and fluid sketches and their brilliantly calculated translations to canvas. He is the keystone for the creation of a national style of art that upon his death was carried forth by his dear friends, the Group of Seven. His incredible achievements as a landscape artist eclipse the fact that he was also quite the precocious illustrator and designer. It is well known that he and his friends worked at major graphic design firms in Toronto such as Grip Ltd, and Rous and Mann. Thomson also did design work before this in Seattle. It is often mentioned that these famous Canadian artists worked in these firms but it is rarely mentioned what they actually made while there. Snippets of their work has sporatically been included in publications, and what we do see indicates they followed international trends as we see a blend of the Arts and Crafts, Glasgow School of Art, Aestheticism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau in these illustrations. Colleagues of theirs at these firms were also following these models.</p>
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<p>Two important advocates of Canadian impressionism were William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. Their interpretations of French impressionistic paintings made uniquely beautiful and ethereal Canadian landscape scenes that foreshadowed advances in national landscape painting. Both artists also painted phenomenal murals in situ as decoration in en vogue Arts and Crafts houses in Quebec. If you look closely the hands of these artists can be found, but all in all the murals relate far more to aesthetic and symbolist painting than impressionism.</p>
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<p>Lastly, I mentioned earlier that I wanted to briefly discuss an Arts and Crafts style artist and designer who was only active commercially. This was Gustav Hahn. He trained in Stuttgart and moved with his family to Toronto in 1888. He painted murals and ceilings, decorated and designed furnishings for interiors and churches. His paintings are very reminiscent both of late Pre-Raphaelite and symbolist paintings and are very adept. He moved to the countryside during the First World War because of anti-German sentiment and took up farming. I wonder if he had not quietly reverted to the countryside whether or not he might have established a more prominent place in Canadian art history, for he had been a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and helped found the Arts and Crafts Society of Canada in 1903. Yes, there was an Arts and Crafts Society of Canada. This only proves that regardless of the lacking memories of this movement in Canada it was present in a very real way.</p>
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<p>The Arts and Crafts Society is probably worthy of a whole new blog and I have thus far given a lengthy introduction to the Arts and Crafts and Canada, so it is probably best to close at this and save the Arts and Crafts Society for another time.</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-43364440789219488622015-01-09T13:58:00.002-08:002016-02-17T13:44:50.272-08:00VICTORIAN CHARM AND COLONIAL RIGOR: SCHREIBER, HOPKINS AND EARLY FEMALE CANADIAN ARTISTS<p>VICTORIAN CHARM AND COLONIAL RIGOR: SCHREIBER, HOPKINS AND EARLY FEMALE CANADIAN ARTISTS</p>
<p>Charlotte Schreiber (1834-1922) and Frances Anne Hopkins (1838-1919) are two of the earliest female artists to gain recognition in Canada. Schreiber was the first female to enter the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1880 and Hopkins was a member of the British Royal Academy. They were actively painting a generation before Paris had become the definitive centre of both academic and avant-garde art studies for Canadians. Although Paris was an important art centre by the mid-19th century, a number of artists were still influenced by styles elsewhere, such as Victorian England. Victorian art had less of an impact on Canadian art than French art; however it is clear that at least both Schreiber and Hopkins had connections to Victorian England. For example, Schreiber made a series of historical genre illustrations based on <i>the Fairie Queen</i> and Chaucer, something more typical of English artists at the time. Both women engaged in painting portraits in the manner of Victoria portraiture of the time.</p>
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<p>They are both of English origin like many Canadian artists of the time. They are also both very talented artists who adapted to their environments and painted their own experiences in adept realism with hints of Victorian romanticism and sentiment. One of my all-time favourite historical Canadian paintings is Charlotte Schreiber’s <i>Springfield on the Credit</i>, painted circa 1880. Hopkins' paintings that are based on her expeditions to document the wilderness and native peoples are exceptionally detailed and are some of my favourite of this Canadian genre.</p>
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<p>Charlotte Schreiber was the first woman to officially enter the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1880, but she was by no stretch the first woman artist in Canada. Yet little mention is made of any particular female artist from before her time. I am not pleading for retrospective recognition of early Canadian female artists based on their having been overshadowed by male artists of equal or lesser talent, as it can be noted that before Cornelius Krieghoff and Paul Kane there are also not very many male artists who are singled out either. Kane and Krieghoff are sometimes referred to as the fathers of Canadian art, and Charlotte Schreiber and Frances Anne Hopkins are active scarcely a generation afterwards. Before this, consideration of Canadian art was through broader themes rather than highlighted individuals, male or female.</p>
<p>Researching early Canadian female artists proved to me that they were engaged in the same artistic activities and trends as their male counterparts from the mid-18th century through to Charlotte Schreiber’s time in the second half of the 19th century. A vast majority of art was made for documentary purposes, such as topographical views and the recording of flora and fauna with botanical drawings and paintings. Portraiture was also a prevalent art form for growing middle and upper classes who wanted to record their families in 18th and 19th century Canada. From the Colonial era and onwards, women were painting adept topographical views, botanical imagery and portraits of quality, and were often recorded as being art teachers in colonial towns and cities. Paul Kane’s wife Harriet (nee Clench) was a skilled draughtsman and Krieghoff taught a gifted landscape artist Alicia Killaly.</p>
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<p>There are other contemporaries of Killaly and Clench who are worth mentioning, including: Fanny Bayfield, Katherine Ellice, Caroline Estcourt, Maria Morris Miller, Lady Eveline-Marie Alexander, Catherine Parr Traill and her sister Susanna Moodie and niece Agnes Moodie Fitzgibbon. For these artists I was able to more easily find imagery to illustrate the blog, but this is a small selection. Only the very earliest documented colonial art of New France (as discussed in last year’s blog <a href="http://vancouver-mastersgalleryltd.blogspot.ca/2014/01/in-not-too-bleak-midwinter-winter.html">In the Not-So-Bleak-Midwinter</a>) makes no real mention of women artists. The art of that time was almost exclusively produced by and for the Jesuit clergy.
I have long felt that Charlotte Schreiber and Frances Anne Hopkins are noteworthy and of interest both for their use of Victorian themes that appear less frequently in Canadian art and for their considerable talents amongst the country's best artists of the mid 19th century. Yet it is clear that there are other pioneering female artists of merit worth investigating early on in the history of Canadian art. I will leave off by sharing some illustrations of works of art by these aforementioned early female artists. Enjoy, and Happy New Year.</p>
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<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-9485982487290911262014-12-13T16:06:00.001-08:002014-12-13T16:06:19.992-08:00O CHRISTMAS TREES, O CHRISTMAS TREES<p>O CHRISTMAS TREES, O CHRISTMAS TREES</p>
<p>My enthusiasm for the holiday season means that over the past few years I have already used up some of the familiar and well-known Canadian art that has to do with winter, Christmas or the holidays (with the exception of Clarence Gagnon’s <i>Midnight Mass</i> (1908).</p>
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<p>Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries Canadian artists have been creating an abundance of lovely wintery scenes that can easily pass as the imagery for beautiful Christmas and Season’s Greetings cards, but they are appropriate all winter long and are not Christmas-specific. I have discussed many of these Canadian masterpieces in previous blogs such as <a href="http://vancouver-mastersgalleryltd.blogspot.ca/2014/01/in-not-too-bleak-midwinter-winter.html">In the Not-So-Bleak Midwinter: Winter Wonderland Art</a> and <a href="http://vancouver-mastersgalleryltd.blogspot.ca/2012/12/during-holiday-season-we-are-often.html">Lovely Weather for a Sleigh Ride Together with Art</a>. So as not to repeat myself, like a few of the other blogs this year I will not limit myself to focusing on Canadian art for this holiday blog.</p>
<p>Although creativity and artistry are abounding during the holiday season in the form of ornaments, decorating and design there are not many specifically ‘art historical’ topics that I can think of to write about. However Christmas has lots of deep historical roots, and there are lots of stories to be told. Most cultures around the world have always had some sort of celebration in mid-to-late December as this coincides with the Winter Solstice.</p>
<p>I have decided to select one festive custom to talk about and illustrate with great works of art. I chose the history of the Christmas tree. Although this is a non-Canadian art themed topic, I did choose it because I was thinking of important themes in Canadian art. Based on the country’s landscape, trees have always been an important theme in Canadian art, especially the ‘lone’ tree, and very often an evergreen. That sounds an awful lot like a Christmas tree.</p>
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<p>The above painting by Canadian artist Elizabeth Stanhope Forbes is at least one example of a Canadian painting featuring the Christmas tree, though she did move to and paint in England (where the subject matter was depicted more regularly at the time)</p>
<p>Evergreens have had a special meaning in winter since pre-Christian times in cultures all over the globe. During the ‘festive’ season people decorated their homes with evergreens. The Ancient Egyptians believed the Sun to be a God whom became sick in the darkness of winter, and they celebrated and decorated with evergreens at the Winter Solstice to signify that the Sun God could begin to recover. The Romans celebrated ‘Saturnalia’ during the Winter Solstice and also decorated with evergreens. Saturn was the God of Agriculture and the time of year signified that the agricultural season was just around the corner. Celtic Druids decorated with evergreens at this time because it was meant to symbolize everlasting life. In Scandinavia evergreens were special to the Sun God. As Christianity spread it is reputed that when St. Boniface converted Germanic pagans he replaced a worshipped oak tree with an evergreen tree because the triangular shape is reminiscent of the Holy Trinity and points to Heaven.</p>
<p>The pervasive use of evergreens during the festive season survived with new Christian customs. The idea of decorating a whole tree came a little later. Loose connotations to the Christmas tree are found in Georgia and Poland very early, but the closest connection to todays traditional Christmas tree took root in Northern Germany and Livonia (modern Estonia and Latvia) in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In these regions Renaissance Guildhalls housed evergreen trees decorated with sweets to be enjoyed by Guild apprentices and children. Often the tree would be transferred to the town square on the final evening of festive celebrations. Records of this have survived for a certain Livonian guild, the Brotherhood of Blackheads, for 1441, 1442, 1510 and 1514; and for the town of Bremen in 1570.</p>
<p>In the Rhineland in the late 15th and 16th centuries devoted Christians would sometimes put evergreen trees in their homes, and they became a Protestant symbol at Christmas as opposed to the Catholic Christmas crib. There are records of evergreen trees being hung in St. George’s Church in town of Selestat (modern day Alsace) in 1521.</p>
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<p>Protestant upper-class families in Upper Rhineland towns began placing decorated evergreen trees in their homes after this. The move from guildhalls and churches into the home begins the development towards our contemporary Christmas tree practices. Trees in the home took longer to spread into rural areas but slowly over the course of the 18th century all over Germany it became more prevalent, in so that by the 19th century the Christmas tree was thought of as an embodiment of German culture (especially for Germans abroad).</p>
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<p>Also in the early 19th century all over Europe the nobility were adopting the practice of decorating an evergreen tree. The Christmas tree came to England via the Hanoverian merge between King George III and his German wife Charlotte. Queen Victoria had one yearly as a child, and made the tradition even more en vogue within the upper classes when she continued to have and promote them after marrying her German cousin Albert in 1841. Christmas trees began to be advertised in magazines often in the mid-19th century, and by 1920 it was not just the middle and upper classes that had Christmas trees but all classes.</p>
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<p>The Christmas tree made a few isolated debuts in North America towards the end of the 18th century. For example, although Christmas trees did not turn up with regularity in Canada until the 2nd half of the 19th century, a German general and his baroness wife stationed in Quebec had a Christmas party featuring a decorated tree in 1781. Americans became thoroughly interested in Christmas trees after an 1850 illustration of Queen Victoria and her family around their Christmas tree at Windsor Castle was re-published in an American magazine. Within just 20 years of the publication it was commonplace to have a Christmas tree in American homes. The popularity for them was so great that numerous places around the country have laid claim to having the first Christmas tree in America.</p>
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<p>I will conclude this brief general history of the Christmas tree with more paintings that depict the Christmas tree in some capacity. I have attempted to select paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to best illustrate similarities and differences between Christmas tree traditions up to a hundred years ago and our contemporary versions. I also tried when possible to select some works that are impressionistic, or somewhat impressionistic, in style to compliment the lovely Canadian impressionist paintings that are currently on exhibition and sale at <a href="http://www.mastersgalleryltd.com/">Masters Gallery Calgary</a>. <i>The Impressionism in Canada</i> exhibition and sale celebrates the launch of a new seminal publication on the subject called <i>Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery</i>. There will certainly be some lovely impressionistic winter wonderlands within the book, which is available for sale at <a href="http://www.mastersgalleryltd.com/">Masters Gallery in Calgary</a>. Incidentally, many of the below paintings are by artists from Northern Europe whom like the Canadians who learned of impressionism in France then took the method back to their own countries and embuded a certain 'northerness' in their impressionism.</p>
<p>Season's Greetings to all and enjoy these images of trees from the past.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
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Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-29592433555480919192014-11-07T17:30:00.003-08:002014-11-08T16:52:24.868-08:00LEST WE FORGET: REMEMBERING CANADIAN WAR ART<p>LEST WE FORGET: REMEMBERING CANADIAN WAR ART</p>
<p>Years ago my post-graduate studies brought me to the Imperial War Museum on an assignment about war artists and the art of World War I. Studying amongst the numerous great galleries and museums of London, you get very used to seeing art first hand instead of just in textbooks. For that particular essay I had scouted out the paintings I wanted to reference in the Imperial War Museum in advance of arriving. When I got there I found what I was looking for, with the exception of a crucial example of a wartime painting that bolstered by essay’s argument. That painting was Paul Nash’s Void, and I had thought that it was located at the museum. I cited the painting from a textbook illustration, and never saw it in person.</p>
<p>Living in Toronto a few years later I took a pilgrimage-like weekend trip to Owen Sound to visit the Tom Thomson Gallery and the little old churchyard where his gravestone resides near where he grew up. At this time, the Tom Thomson Gallery was playing host to a travelling exhibition called Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory. To my great surprise, I walked into the show to find Paul Nash’s Void that had eluded my presence in London. I had in fact been confused regarding the whereabouts of this painting, which was not in fact owned by the Imperial War Museum like so many of Nash’s paintings but rather by our very own National Gallery of Canada. It was in Owen Sound on loan for the exhibition.</p>
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<p>I was thrilled to see the painting in person but furthermore the whole show acted as a reminder of just how integrated and integral Canadian war artists were amongst the Allied troops during World War One. Paul Nash was a British artist who was associated with the art movement, Vorticism (the very same movement that praises speed, technology and modernity that inspired Sybil Andrews and the Grosvenor School of Printmakers) Like Paul Nash, artists were enlisted as ‘Official’ war artists and were sent with regiments to the frontlines in order to document war efforts. Many of these artists were Canadians, as Canadian involvement in World War One was extensive.</p>
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<p>This blog will showcase Canadian war artists’ work during World War One. These works are interesting to look at because often they deviate from the typical styles and or themes that the artists’ regularly did. The art of World War One is quite distinctive and could almost be considered an art movement of it’s own. Paul Nash’s manner of painting is archetypical of the World War One art. Stylistically compositions tended to be angular, linear and highly suggestive of movement, speed, industry and hardship. These features draw heavily from Vorticism and Italian Futurism, however the war artists were not glorifying war like Futurists and often Vorticists before the onset of the war. On the contrary, Paul Nash is noted to have remarked, “I am no longer an artist, I am a messenger to those who want the war to go on forever… and may it burn their lousy souls.”</p>
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<p>Like Nash, official Canadian war artists were disgusted by the horrors of war. The first four Canadian artists appointed by the Canadian War Memorials Fund were William Beatty, Fred Varley, Maurice Cullen, and Charles Simpson. They were given the rank of Captains and had full military pay. Within a short time though however, the Canadian War Memorial Fund instigated by Lord Beaverbrook had as many as 20 artists conscripted with the Canadian troops. David Milne was quite prolific while in service in France, and Frank Johnston was commissioned to paint the home front bases. </p>
<p>Varley wrote to his wife in 1919 about the war:</p>
<p><i>I’m mighty thankful I’ve left France- I never want to see it again…
I’m going to paint a picture of it, but heavens it can’t say a thousandth part of a story… we are forever tainted with its abortiveness and it’s cruel drama- and for the life of me I don’t know how that can help progression. It is foul and smelly and heartbreaking.</i></p>
<p>On another occasion that year Varley wrote to his friend Arthur Lismer:</p>
<p><i>I tell you Arthur, your wildest nightmares pale before reality. How the devil one can paint anything to express such is beyond me.</i></p>
<p>Yet he managed to paint rather successfully.</p>
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<p>A.Y. Jackson was also sent overseas as a wartime artist, as Private A.Y. Jackson. In his autobiography he reminisced:</p>
<p><i>It is logical that artists should be a part of the organization of total war, whether to provide inspiration, information, or comment on the glory of the stupidity of war…
What to paint was a problem for the war artist. There was nothing to serve as a guide… The Impressionist technique I had adopted in painting was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.</i></p>
<p>This statement helps indicate why most war artists seemed to have strayed from their typical styles/ themes and adopted work based on stylistic principles that were fitting for the depiction of war.</p>
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<p>Arthur Lismer also rendered his services to the Canadian War Memorial Fund. By his own suggestion he remained on Canadian soil capturing the war effort at the ports in Halifax. Halifax was a vital arrival and departure point for ships carrying troops, medical support, and supplies back and forth across the Atlantic. And Lismer noted having much to document there.</p>
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<p><i>In Canvas of War</i> A.Y. Jackson’s painting A Copse, Evening is likened to the work of Paul Nash, and it is also noted that Jackson admired Nash’s work greatly. Canvas of War also quotes a 1953 Jackson article whereby he wrote:</p>
<p><i>I went with Augustus John one night to see a gas attack we made on the German lines. It was like a wonderful display of fireworks, with our clouds of gas and the German flares and rockets of all colours.</i></p>
<p>Jackson’s connection to the two British artists Paul Nash and Augustus John tell us of the comradery and collaboration that took place between Allied artists from all countries involved.</p>
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<p>Canadian war art was not limited to the frontlines or the ports, the immense war efforts women put forth working in factories making supplies and provisions was also accounted for by the Canadian War Records. A fine example of this is Mabel May’s <i>Women Making Shells</i>.</p>
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<p>Some Canadians produced their masterpieces as artists of war and were praised more for their wartime art than for the art at other intervals in their careers. Their paintings might not be featured prominently in general Canadian art history, but they are featured in publications such as Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience 1914-1945. Two such artists are Cyril Barraud and Eric Kennington.</p>
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<p>The majority of these hauntingly effective paintings are owned by the Canadian War Memorial Fund, and thus are kept in public institutions. These works are therefore not very often available on the market and therefore talked about less often. Yet, they are an important part of our history and just like they were intended they remind us ‘Lest we Forget’ of the bravery and sacrifice so many encountered at war. Thus this Remembrance Day let us look at these paintings valiantly rendered from frontline to factory so that we may immortalize the heroes involved and understand the devastation and destruction found at the hands of war.</p>
<p>Canadian war artists were also very involved during World War Two, but a single blog barely adequately covers the art of one world war, let along properly cover two!</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-118095435814694912014-10-21T13:40:00.002-07:002014-10-22T16:22:09.144-07:00PAINTING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE<p>PAINTING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE</p>
<p>Over the years I have known many medical doctors who have taken an extra-curricular interest in the connoisseurship and collecting of fine art. But what about the other way around? What has happened when fine artists have taken an interest in medicine? </p>
<p>I am not the only one to have wondered about this, as there exist quite a few sizeable publications that survey the topic. Two that are particularly noteworthy compilations are <i>The Art of Medicine</i> (Anderson, Julie et al.), <i>Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature</i> (Carmichael and Ratzan), and <i>Medicine in Art</i> (ed. Rousselot, Jean). Based on content from these fine publications and on my own observations, this blog will briefly highlight artists’ depictions of the practice of medicine throughout the history of art.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Canadian artists are not featured in these publications and most of my own observations are also not regarding Canadian art. Perhaps this is because the majority of Canada’s rich art history dates to the 20th century; and it is said in <i>Medicine in Art</i> that “it is quite astonishing that in our century (20th) medicine has made immense progress in all areas,” and yet “that it is rare to have work of direct observation of medical practice.” In short, I believe that photography and film might play a role in the lack of fine art of medicine in action. However, I would also suggest that a curiosity about the medical field instead appears in other areas of the arts, such as television. Artistic interpretations and glimpses into the realm of medicine come in the form of movies, tv series and documentaries such as Rescue 911, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Miracle Babies (Canadian), House, Call the Midwife and so many more. In which case, then medicine in the arts does have a place in contemporary Canadian culture. (Life + Death at Vancouver General Hospital is a current reality television series being filmed right here for example) Perhaps film is why there are few fine art paintings of medical subjects in the history of Canadian art throughout the last century. </p>
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<p>I can however think of one excellent and exceptional Canadian painting of medical subject matter, and we have had the pleasure of having it at Masters Gallery both in Vancouver and Calgary this year. In stunning hyperrealism and with skillful delicacy, Marc-Aurele Suzor-Cote painted a large-scale canvas of a children’s hospital ward, singling in on an ill young child being visited by a saddened loved one. When Suzor-Cote was studying in Europe he travelled widely and honed his skills by meticulously copying famous Old Master and Academic paintings. Suzor-Cote’s <i>The Visit (1905)</i> is copied from <i>Visiting Day in the Hospital</i> by Henri Jules Jean Geoffrey (Town Hall Vichy) Geoffrey’s version does in fact feature in <i>Medicine in Art</i> in the chapter about the 19th century. </p>
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<p>I personally would consider the 19th century to be the heyday of sophisticated interpretations of medicine in art. The subject fits perfectly into the realm of genre painting, which was prevalent during that century. Both art and medicine changed enormously in the 1800s, arguably both fields were revolutionized by the close of the century. Surgery became it’s own discipline, and doctors were affirmed as important citizens and well-respected figures. There were changes in status for artists too, as they were being afforded more creative independence than before. They became less reliant on commissioning patrons, who had control of the subject and style they desired. Thus artists saw greater freedom of expression.</p>
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<p>Artists associated with the art movements of romanticism and realism found the world of medicine was an ideal subject to express their ideologies. <i>Medicine in Art</i> states that, “Medicine could not fail to interest the romantic painters. Searching for unusual subject matter that would allow for a melodramatic and tormented style, they turned to hospitals, asylums, and epidemics.” Romanticists used themes such as the caring doctor, the obedient child, and fainting spells.</p>
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<p>Medicine was suitably attractive as a subject matter in realism too. Realists aimed to draw attention to social realities of the time. The endemic presence of illness, injury and disease and their inevitable and necessary management was considered a crucial aspect of daily life and reality; thus appealing to realist painters. </p>
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<p>Romanticism and most realism were suitable ‘official’ art, and many paintings would have been exhibited with praise at higher institutions. The noble acts and empathetic traits assumed of doctors and their deliverance of their patients made the practice of medicine an ideal subject for ‘official’ art and the 19th century mentality in general. Recognition of the feats of medicine through art seems a natural turn of events in such an epoch, and medicine in art thrived beyond European soil as well. Likely one of the most visually recognizable paintings depicting medicine of all times is <i>The Gross Clinic</i> by American Thomas Eakins. There were many other contemporaneous master artists that depicted passionate, insightful or raw glimpses into the medical profession throughout the century, and resultantly is a mass of powerful and evocative masterpieces from this time. </p>
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<p>The previous century was not one in which medicine and art co-mingled as often as in the 19th century, or even other eras beforehand. Lacking the sentimentality of the proceeding period, the 18th century lent towards skepticism instead. For various political reasons a belief that the world was falling apart was felt. The result was a societal desire to forget the woes of the world by indulging in frivolity and merriment. <i>Medicine in Art</i> adroitly indicates that at this time there was “no place for the serious painter.” If medicine was depicted, it was most likely in a cynical caricature. Whilst medicine was less frequently showcased in a good light in art, the field was making advances during this period. Let us move backwards in time even further, to a period when medicine was richly included in art.</p>
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<p>This brings us to a time and place that I consider to be the next most fruitful for the representation of medicine in art history. Specifically in Dutch territories, the 17th century was a prosperous era for the independent state, and a Golden Age of art, business, and trade thrived. This success brought about a national flavour that is evident in Dutch Golden Age art. The middle and upper classes expanded, and it was not uncommon for wealthy citizens to found hospitals, hospices, orphanages, and lay convents. They also funded academies where medicine could be practiced, as the Dutch of this time held the human body and its mysteries in high esteem.</p>
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<p>The wealthy that sponsored the aforementioned ventures welcomed praise and thanks for their support. They would regularly commission artists to paint them in a favourable light in gratitude for their charitable contributions. Thus, a type of medically related scenario became common in 17th century Dutch art whereby donors and directors were painted assembled in situ in their founded establishments. Doctors and surgeons were well-respected citizens as well, and therefore also painted by artists in a favourable manner, though more likely in a pose for effect rather than in true action. ‘The anatomy lesson’ presented artists with a good opportunity to paint doctors and surgeons posing or in action, and as one of the most prevailing scenes regarding medical practice throughout time it also is quite prominent in Dutch 17th century art. Rembrandt painted the well-known <i>Professor Tulp’s Anatomy Lesson</i> in this era, and he was not the only renowned painter of the time to create their ‘anatony lessons’ with eminent doctors and surgeons. Genre painting (scenes of everyday life) was a large component of Dutch Golden Age art, and medical practice lent well to it.</p>
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<p>The roots for the Dutch appreciation for the mysteries of the human body came from the Renaissance, starting in the 2nd half of the 15th century and lasting throughout the 16th century. The Renaissance was a time of discovery and of humanism, which led to a widespread interest in learning more about man and his physique. Thus human anatomy and medicine gained attention. Artists and doctors keenly studied anatomical structures, so much so that many artists would probably have considered themselves to be scientists of a sort and not exclusively artists.</p>
<p>Artists followed many learned pursuits (embodying the expression ‘A Renaissance Man’ rather well) Leonardo da Vinci is of course the most well-known example of this, as well as Michelangelo. They engaged in dissections, autopsies and various modes of forensic medicine. This dedication to anatomy led to increasingly accurate renderings of operations and anatomy scenes; however the ‘anatomy drawing’ itself was more often rendered than scenes of doctors and surgeons in action practicing medicine during this period. Anatomy drawings represent the greatest collaboration between art and medicine during the Renaissance.</p>
<p>Artists researched and draughted highly detailed drawings of the human form to aid in a greater understanding of human anatomy. The chapter devoted to the Renaissance in <i>Medicine in Art</i> tells that, “the interconnections…(and)… functioning of muscles, bones and organs now interested doctors and artists,” (and) “an exact anatomical knowledge for the artist was demanded alongside attention to bodily forms in the work of art.” Anatomy drawings had a function, but they are artistic and beautiful in their own way and make this an interesting period within which artists show a great interest in medicine.</p>
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<p>Prior to the Renaissance, there was greater religious involvement in medical practice. Monasteries were primary caregiving facilities, and saw to the care of patients more often than doctors and surgeons. It was not until the end of the Middle Ages that medical practitioners worked more independently from the Church. Medicine still features in art during the Middle Ages; however as per the above there was heavy use of religious symbolism involved. The imagery therefore is not always representative of true practice; but rather the beliefs surrounding healing.</p>
<p>In direct relation to readings in the Bible, there were often depictions of ‘Christ the Doctor’ healing the infirm. Other saints like Luke the Evangelist (who was a Doctor) or various patron saints of specific ailments are also depicted as healers in art.</p>
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<p>Despite popular belief, <i>Medicine in Art</i> indicates that there was “ actually a lively interest in medical science,” during the medieval era. Another common medieval medical theme was imagery of the sick being cared for in various facilities ranging from the homes and monasteries to the newly devised concept of the ‘hospital.’ Medicine in Art notes that the “hospital compound… apparently evoked lively interest amongst artists in the late Middle Ages.” </p>
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<p>Down through the ages, medicine and art have co-mingled and artists have shown an interest in the activities surrounding medical practice. This blog merely ‘touches the tip of the iceberg’ regarding medicine in art, which dates back to antiquity. In the Ancient Egyptian Empire are found portrayals of the God of Medicine and the lesser God of Health and Sickness, Imhotep and Bes, and in Greco-Roman times the dignity bestowed upon medical science is found on fresco wall paintings to ceramic vases.</p>
<p>I will end by bringing Canadian art back into the picture by noting that although there are not many Canadian contributions to the history of medicine in art, we do have a famous figure who was indeed highly involved in both medicine and fine art. Sir Frederick Banting is a famous Canadian doctor and medical scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his co-discovery of insulin and its beneficial uses. He has received numerous honorary degrees, research funding and was Knighted for his services by King George V. However, he is also well known as a skilled painter. He painted alongside Group of Seven members, and his beautiful works of art have a lasting desirability on the market no less than his contemporaries.</p>
<p>Should anyone know of any other Canadian paintings that in some way reference the practice of medicine that you would like to share with us we would love to hear from you.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
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Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-33009329483561982292014-09-19T14:41:00.001-07:002014-11-19T12:59:04.481-08:00THE CLUB BEFORE THE GROUP<p>THE CLUB BEFORE THE GROUP</p>
<p>The Club Before the Group refers to the ‘Canadian Art Club,’ which preceded the Group of Seven by a few years in the beginning of the 20th century. The general impression might be that the Group of Seven was Canada’s first non-institutional group formed as an exhibiting conglomerate of artists who worked together closely sharing ideas, principles, and goals. Yet there have been other groups of artists who flocked together under similar artistic pretenses and were not able to achieve their goals within the confines of prevailing artistic institutions. One such group that pre-dated the Group of Seven was the Canadian Art Club.</p>
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<p>The Canadian Art Club was active between 1907 and 1915, and as a whole has been overshadowed by the vast and lasting success of the Group of Seven. Interestingly, despite a lack of widespread remembrance about the Club itself, its membership reads like an A-list of Canadian art history’s top artists. Edmund Montague Morris and Curtis Williamson were two young Toronto based artists who were responsible for forming the Canadian Art Club, and they remained the driving force behind maintaining the Club.</p>
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<p>Very unfortunately, the grief felt at the tragic death of Edmund Montague Morris in 1913 by drowning at one of his favourite sketching locations was a major upset and factored into the dissolution of the Canadian Art Club. It is ironic that the grief felt at the tragic death of Tom Thomson in 1917 by drowning at one of his favourite sketching locations was a major driving force behind the banding together of his friends to form the Group of Seven. One artist’s death by drowning instigated the demise of a group; where as the next instigated the formation of a group.</p>
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<p>In memory of Edmund Morris and in appreciation for the other members of the Club, this blog will talk a little bit more about the Canadian Art Club. Membership in the Canadian Art Club included the following important artists whose own reputations surpassed the reputation of the Canadian Art Club as a whole over time:</p>
<p>Edmund Montague Morris</p>
<p>A. Curtis Williamson</p>
<p>Horatio Walker</p>
<p>Homer Watson</p>
<p>Archibald Browne</p>
<p>Franklin Brownell</p>
<p>William Brymner</p>
<p>Maurice Cullen</p>
<p>Clarence Gagnon</p>
<p>Marc-Aurele Suzor-Cote</p>
<p>James Wilson Morrice</p>
<p>Ernest Lawson</p>
<p>William Clapp</p>
<p>Henri Hebert</p>
<p>Phimister Proctor (sculptor)</p>
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<p>One could loosely associate the Club members with “Canadian Impressionism.” Indeed, they are the artists that appear in the scholarly publications about impressionism in Canada (such as Paul Duval’s <i>Canadian Impressionism</i> or in the chapter about Canadian Impressionism in the seminal international publication <i>World Impressionism</i>). Dennis Reid does however cover these artists in a chapter together called “The Canadian Art Club,” in his widely referenced <i>A Concise History of Canadian Art</i> (which is promising for the recollection of the Club as the book was revised in an attractive third edition in 2012).</p>
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<p>The rhetoric of the Group of Seven is still understood as having been forward thinking and innovative for the time. However at the turn of the century for the artists who would become Club members their impressionistic inspirations would have seemed dramatic to the Edwardian Canadian public. Impressionism has become such a mainstay in the history of Western art that it can sometimes be hard to remember that upon its debut it was radical, not traditional. It was to take many decades before it was accepted fully worldwide. By 1900 just because the ‘artsy’ locals of Montmartre in Paris had become accustomed to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism already, does not mean that the average conservative upper middle class Torontonian would be comfortable with the newly introduced art. Thus the paintings that the Club members would have liked to exhibit would have seemed innovative and forward thinking similarly to the Group of Seven’s earliest exhibitions.</p>
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<p>None of the members of the Club would be considered extremely drastic in their desire to change the prevailing trend of Academic painting. Dennis Reid adroitly refers to these artists as ‘tentative modernists.’ For some the original French Impressionism may even have been considered “too different.” A selection did get aspiration from the above, but many looked to European Schools that either were precursors to, or subdued contemporaries of, the French Impressionists. This includes the French Barbizon School, British En plein Air Painting (such as the Newlyn School) and the Hague School in the Netherlands.</p>
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<p>These modern Canadian artists were embracing a less constrained loosening of their brushstrokes and an attention to the effects of light. Morris and Williamson were concerned by the lack of ingenuity on Toronto’s art scene; and sympathized with a growing number of artists that felt the Academic style of painting was getting too stale and outdated. The Club members merely wanted to find the opportunity to inject a little bit of pizzazz into their paintings without criticism. Thus an exhibiting conglomerate of some of Canada’s most intuitive and talented artists of the time was formed in order to be able to exhibit in lieu of recognition in established annual exhibitions.</p>
<p>When Morris and Williamson formed the Canadian Art Club they recruited Homer Watson as their first president, who was already a recognized artist. They successfully held numerous exhibitions before Morris’ death and the disturbances of the First World War. In the end they were well received and the critics were favourable. They therefore were one of the earliest groups of artists to instigate change in regional and national art institutions and in fact helped pave the way for the activities of the Group of Seven a few years later.</p>
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<p>Before ending this blog I would like to clarify that in calling Academic art ‘stale’ and ‘lifeless’ I am simply relaying what scholarship has told us that the opposition of the time felt. This is not my own opinion, as I am a fan of both the Canadian Art Club and Academic art. I enjoy both for different reasons and recognize that they both form a significant part of the history of Canadian art.</p>
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<p>I hope you enjoyed the variety of painting styles pictured in this blog, and when you think of the greatness of the Group of Seven remember the Canadian Art Club too!</p>
<p>Here is a selection of paintings by Canadian Art Club artists that are past highlights sold at Masters Gallery. Enjoy!</p>
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Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-42154327019688395352014-08-02T10:06:00.000-07:002014-08-02T10:06:32.008-07:00THE GARDEN IN CANADIAN ART<p>THE GARDEN IN CANADIAN ART</p>
<p>This lighthearted blog is based on an art book called <i>The Garden in Art</i> by art historian Debra Mancoff. I was drawn to the book in the bookstore the other day solely because the cover illustration is a Pre-Raphaelite painting; Pre-Raphaelite art is one of my favourite art movements. The publication further peaked my interest as it covers the depiction of gardens throughout the history of art from ancient to modern and from east to west. It was very interesting, and contains chapters on topics such as the seasons, private gardens, public gardens, famous gardens and more. It is also an aesthetically appealing book because it has 200 colour illustrations that cover all sorts of well-known international art movements.</p>
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<p>Many of my favourite international artists' paintings featuring gardens have been illustrated in this book, however sadly there are no Canadian artists represented. It is understandably very difficult to include work from all countries in a single publication of such broad scope (even with 200 illustrations). However, I can think of many Canadian artists who have painted exceptional garden scenes: private, public, and figurative to name a few. This blog will illustrate examples of Important Canadian Art featuring the garden. This seemed like a fitting subject for a summertime read with beautiful seasonally appropriate imagery.</p>
<p><i>In The Garden in Art</i> particular attention is placed on the Impressionists of the late 19th century; doubtless because it is a pivotal movement in art and features both private and public gardens as a major source for subject matter. Not surprisingly there are very good paintings incorporating gardens by Canadian artists working in impressionist or post-impressionist styles at home or abroad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>
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<p>Gardens are regularly used as settings for figurative painting as well, in Canadian art no less. Some excellent examples of this are paintings by some of the country’s prime female artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p>
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<p>Although the wilderness became a subject of specific national interest in Canada during the first three or four decades of the 20th century, many Canadian artists also chose to depict the quaint, intimate and pastoral properties that the garden alternatively had to offer. Arguably the most famous painting of a garden in Canadian art history is <i>The Tangled Garden</i> by J.E.H. MacDonald.</p>
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<p>A few years prior to the official formation of the Group of Seven, MacDonald spent 1915-1916 painting many garden scenes in and around his Thornhill home. MacDonald’s time focusing almost exclusively on sketching and painting the garden was a formative period for the artist. It was a transitional phase between a more archetypical impressionism and what would become his distinct Group period style. His unique garden scenes were considered avant-garde in the eyes of many Toronto art critics of the time, and <i>The Tangled Garden</i> was not met with unanimous praise during its time. Although this was perturbing to MacDonald, he did not give in to the critics’ preferences and instead fueled himself with greater resolve to pave on with his own artistic ideology. There are lots of lovely garden sketches by MacDonald from this period, and he returned to the beloved theme again towards the end of his life in the 1930s.</p>
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<p>The garden may have a diminished visual presence in Canadian art around mid-century because the country’s leading artists were focused on abstraction at the time. Though I would not be surprised if the word ‘garden’ showed up a handful or so times in the titles of abstract works, such as Jean McEwen’s Garden of Frost Series.</p>
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<p>The garden has survived as a theme in art to the present day. The ever popular and cherished works of well-known Quebecois artist Claude Simard are good attestation to that.</p>
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<p>Enjoy time in the garden this summer!</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-69053534198452691082014-07-17T10:29:00.001-07:002014-07-17T10:30:03.488-07:00AUDACIOUS ART: ALPINES TO ABSTRACTS<p>AUDACIOUS ART: ALPINES TO ABSTRACTS</p>
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<p>It is hard to believe that only 15 years separate the dates of creation between the Robert Ford Gagen painting and the Kathleen Munn painting above. Given the far slower pace of global trends in the history of Western art up until around 1900, it is even still unbelievable that only 60 years separates the well honed abstract paintings of Jean-Paul Riopelle in the 1950s and other romantic realist landscapes done by artists in the same manner as Gagen in the late 19th century.</p>
<p>The avant-garde and young genre of abstract art arose in the beginning of the 20th century and in just a few decades the popularity of highly realistic landscapes was being replaced by the popularity of non-representational art. Even today one might deem the realistic landscapes of Canada’s academic painters as being traditional and composed versus abstract painting as avant-garde and edgy.</p>
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<p>In late 19th century Canada, the artists who rose to prominence typically held membership with the Royal Canadian Academy of Art and were stylistically conservative and technically proficient. Artists such as Frederic Bell-Smith, Thomas Fripp, Mower Martin, Frederick Verner, Marmaduke Matthews and Lucius O'Brien followed landscape romanticism, painting in a realistic manner not unlike that which had been most prevalent in academic art circles in Europe earlier in that same century.</p>
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<p>The Royal Academic artists at the closing of the 19th and opening of the 20th centuries were ideal for participating in journeys on the Canadian Pacific Railway to promote the west through painting. Many academic artists came to the Prairies, the Rockies and eventually to the West Coast to sketch and paint artistic renditions of the landscape. These paintings were popular at annual Royal Canadian Academy exhibitions and other exhibitions of importance, and remained so into the first few decades of the 20th century. This popularity was steadfast enough that shades of this academic landscape tradition were still lingering when abstract art came to Canada.</p>
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<p>The representational art of the Academicians was still popular and the Group of Seven was still relatively innovative when artist Kathleen Munn began experimenting with abstraction in circa 1926-28. The art scholar Roald Nasgaard wrote:</p>
<p><i>It was essentially to [Munn’s] lone credit that modernist-inspired works had a presence on the Toronto art scene during the 1920s in the group exhibitions of the Royal Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists and at the CNE, which were the most important venues of the time in Toronto.</i></p>
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<p>Nasgaard commented that Munn's attempts were evident in her time too, because a contemporary review of an RCA exhibition in the Toronto Mail and Empire read that, “Miss Munn has made the first Canadian attempt, so far as local exhibitions are concerned at futuristic painting, with a cubist suggestion.” There are a selection of other artists whom engaged in sporadic experimentation with abstraction around this time, such as Henrietta Shore and Bertram Brooker.</p>
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<p>Another often-overlooked pioneer in the genre in Canada was Lowrie Warrener. Warrener was also a sophisticated representational artist working in an innovative neo-impressionistic style of his own, contemporaneous to the Group of Seven. He experimented with flat patterned heavily abstracted scenes; such as The Bumble Bee. I believe Warrener was a talented artist for his time in Canada.<p>
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<p>After this initial phase of abstraction, amongst the next prominent artists to try their hands at it were Lawren Harris and Jock MacDonald in the 1930s. They produced orderly geometric abstract work that owed much to a combination of influences, such as cubism, constructivism, futurism and art deco principles.</p>
<p>Jock MacDonald began to experiment with abstract art in the mid 1930s after pondering what the importance of representational art was in current times. He credits tutelage under Frederick Varley in the late 1920s and early 1930s for imaginative inspiration, and himself was interested in spirituality not unlike Varley’s Group of Seven comrade, Lawren Harris.</p>
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<p>Thus when Harris moved to Vancouver in 1940, he and Jock acquainted and became fast friends with similar ideas about non-representational art. They were not the only artists to venture into abstract painting at this time, but they typically come up for comment more often.</p>
<p>Next of course come Quebec’s <i>Les Automatistes</i> late in the 1940s. Canada went from being behind in avant-garde painting to suddenly having a group of World leaders at the forefront of the evolution of abstract painting by mid-century. Quebec stays in the limelight for the next stage of abstract painting a decade later with <i>Les Plasticiens</i> and their contemporaries.</p>
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<p>The daredevil quality of many lyrical and hard edge geometric abstract art isn’t always just visual in nature, as often abstract art movements are accompanied by vehemently edgy rhetoric of beliefs about their painting goals (such as <i>Les Automatistes</i> “Refus Global” and “the Manifeste des Plasticiens”)</p>
<p>All of these characteristics provide early abstract painting with an audacious aura. Synonyms for "audacious" that might be equally fitting for describing any number of early abstract art movements are: gutsy, nervy, brave, foreword, bold, cheeky, adventurous, and as seen above daredevil and edgy.</p>
<p>Words that might instead be linked to the more traditional appearing realist landscapes, such as alpine scenes of the Rocky Mountains or Indian camps at sunset might be: serene, delicate, romantic, refined, traditional, classical, conventional, or much more.</p>
<p>However, when I thought about Canadian artists who were “audacious,” I personally felt that I had to consider most of the academic romantic artists discussed earlier also as “audacious.” There audacity may not be evident in the appearance of the paintings, but through the artists' adventurous personalities. These artists were not painting scenes of towering snow-covered alpines, glaciers, dense forests, and native Indian encampments from the comfort of their living rooms. It was necessary to trek out into the wilderness (sans cell phone, bug repellent and mountain resorts) in all conditions in order to capture the essence of the subject. Wandering into the formidable Canadian wilderness on foot at the turn of the century burdened with all the painting equipment in a rather amenity-free era seems sufficiently daredevil and brave to me.</p>
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Despite the vast stylistic differences between romantic academicians and abstract artists, in my opinion both share something in common: they are bold, edgy and gutsy minded souls in one-way or another. From the alpine views of the Rocky Mountains to the painterly non-representational work in Quebec, Canada has its fair share of "audacious" artists of an excellent calibre.</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
<p>Note: Masters Gallery Vancouver is seeking Canadian romanticist landscape paintings for an upcoming exhibition in the fall of 2014. If you have a painting that you think might be suitable and are interested in having it included in the exhibition and sale please do not hesitate to contact us. Examples of artists we are looking to include are Lucius O'Brien, Thomas Fripp, Robert F. Gagen, T. Mower Martin, Marmaduke Matthews, Frederic Bell-Smith, Frederick Verner, Otto Jacobi, and their contemporaries. jillturner@shaw.ca or peterohler@shawcable.com</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-31909510725576379862014-06-20T15:18:00.002-07:002014-06-24T10:47:43.577-07:00W.J. PHILLIPS TOP TWENTY COUNTDOWN<p>W.J. PHILLIPS TOP TWENTY COUNTDOWN</p>
<p>W.J. Phillips woodblock prints have always been popular with Masters Gallery and friends. Phillips is doubtless Canada’s artist who was most proficient at woodblock printmaking. His skillfully executed oeuvre of woodblock prints are an excellent choice for anyone wanting to collect Canadian art, as they were made in editions ranging from 5 to 150 of each. Multiple editions of each work of art makes availability greater and thus prospect of amassing the particular images one wants (or all of them) becomes a real possibility. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this means Phillips woodblock prints are not original art. The making of each woodblock print is done completely hands-on by the artist (just as much so as an oil painting) and is both difficult and laborious. These prints resemble nothing of the type produced in very large editions, or unlimited editions, with en mass technological printing processes. To prove this point further, note that because each edition is individually pulled from the woodblocks by the artist, none are identical. Each impression will vary in colour and clarity as seen by two editions of <i>Morning</i> below.</p>
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<p>Because collecting Phillips’ woodblock prints is actually feasible, many people become very enthusiastic about which ones they would like and what they want to acquire next. Some collectors choose to stick to prints of a specific location, such as Lake of the Woods, The Rockies or the West Coast. Other collectors choose to have their collections represent a variety, or selection of everything Phillips did.</p>
<p>Most collectors might consider a select few works more desirable to collect than others, as they can be singled out as his masterpieces. Phillips fans could probably agree quite closely as to which would comprise the artist’s top five woodblock prints. The top five are in fact so desirable that there can often be waiting lists of prospective buyers interested in acquiring the next edition that comes available for private sale. Naturally, this also means that when the top works come available at auction there are always bidding wars and prices are therefore significantly higher in price than Phillips’ other works. This does not mean that Phillips other woodblock prints are not also attractive; Phillips was a very talented artist after all.</p>
<p>Phillips executed nearly 150 colour woodblock prints over the course of his career, most of which are exceptional works of art. So after the top five, what do collectors desire next? There is a wide range in price having to do with various factors like size, subject matter/ location, level of detail, edition clarity, and so forth.</p>
<p>Masters Gallery buys and sells Phillips work with great regularity, and is thus familiar with which works are typically encountered, requested and favoured most. We decided to make a list of the Phillips’ woodblock prints that are cherished by collectors beyond the top five obvious examples. We came up with our top twenty list, with a specific order for the top ten and no specific order for the remaining ten (personal opinion and taste make this subjective) I for one found it difficult to narrow down a list of my favourites, having at least another dozen prints that could easily usurp others in the top twenty.</p>
<p>After compiling our list of what we thought ought to constitute Phillips’ top twenty woodblock prints, we decided to see how close we were to a more definitive list. By looking at the top prices for Phillips’ prints through online databases for auction price records. Interestingly, our list was close to the order of official sales prices at auction for the top ten. It is worth mentioning that Phillips’ woodblock prints have always sold often through private sale in retail art galleries across the country as well, and therefore the auction sales results are not completely gospel. Everyone’s list will vary a little bit. Have a go at compiling your own top ten or twenty, we would love to hear your opinions (jillturner@shaw.ca) If you need help remembering all the prints you can visit a website devoted to his complete graphic works <a href="www.sharecom.ca/phillips">here</a> to refresh your memory of all the prints.</p>
<p>Here is our top ten:</p>
<p>1. Karlukwees, edition of 100, 1929</p>
<p>2. York Boats, edition of 150, 1930 </p>
<p>3. Summer Idyll, edition of 100, 1926</p>
<p>4. Mamalilicoola, edition of 100, 1928</p>
<p>5. Jim King’s Wharf, edition of 100, 1927</p>
<p>6. Norman Bay, Lake of the Woods, 1920, edition of 50</p>
<p>7. Indian Days, Banff, edition of 100, 1950</p>
<p>8. Gloaming, edition of 50, 1921</p>
<p>9. Hnausa, edition of 100, 1934</p>
<p>10. Temple Lodge, edition of 100, 1943</p>
<p>And our remaining top eleven through twenty:</p>
<p>Jack Pine, Lake Lilies, Howe Sound, Mount Torrent, Sharp’s Dock, Flying Island, Bather No. 2, Duck Hunter, West Road (Mountain Road) and Poplar Bay.</p>
<p>For interests sake here are the top ten by selling price:</p>
<p>1. Karlukwees</p>
<p>2. Mamalilicoola</p>
<p>3. Summer Idyll</p>
<p>4. York Boats</p>
<p>5. Jim King’s Wharf</p>
<p>6. Indian Days, Banff</p>
<p>7. West Road (Mountain Road, edition of 100, 1942</p>
<p>8. Sharp’s Dock, Pender Harbour, edition of 100, 1952</p>
<p>9. Gloaming</p>
<p>10. Howe Sound, edition of 100, 1935</p>
<p>Here are image of the top ten</p>
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<p>BY: JILL TURNER (with enthusiastic input by Peter Ohler)</p>
Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-21353686572840558662014-06-10T16:06:00.000-07:002014-06-11T10:15:00.151-07:00PAINTERLINESS: BEAUTY IN ABSTRACTION<P>PAINTERLINESS: BEAUTY IN ABSTRACTION</p>
<p>One of my favourite aspects of abstract painting is the ‘painterly’ quality that is characteristic of some of the earlier abstract art movements in Canada, especially <i>les automatistes</i>. ‘Painterly’ can be defined broadly as being “characterized by qualities of colour, stroke, or texture perceived as distinctive to the art form of painting, especially the rendering of forms and images in terms of colour or tonal relations rather than of contour or line.” <i>Les Automatistes</i>, such as Paul-Emile Borduas, Jean-Paul Riopelle or Marcelle Ferron, impress me through their uncanny ability to harmonize pure texture and colour without representation. This mastery of composition makes for delicious eye candy. I could stare at segments of a Riopelle or Borduas canvas for ages, as the paintings are visually sumptuous with their build up of ridges, craters, troughs, canyons, clumps, chunks and mountains of paint with more than satisfactorily aesthetic colour combinations.</p>
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<p>There is thought-provoking purpose and reasoning behind the creation of these ‘automatic’ and spontaneous works of art, but more often than not I find myself casting aside inner meaning in favour of simply enjoying the visual appeal of <i>automatiste</i> paintings. I marvel at these artists' ability to make harmonious compositions in a “<b>wow how did they do that</b>” sort of way, not unlike I would for the trapeze act in Cirque du Soleil! I often fret that I do not approach the work of Canada’s modern abstract art movements with enough intellectual insight. However, perhaps my love of the ‘painterliness’ of Riopelle or Borduas' work suggests otherwise. In fact, the term ‘painterly’ or ‘painterliness’ (or even post-painterly abstraction) actually is a source of intellectual discussion regarding the type of spontaneous and non-premeditated art that <i>les automatistes</i>, abstract expressionists, or tachisme artists engaged in.</p>
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<p>The renowned and influential art critic Clement Greenberg referred to ‘painterly’ as being “painting built-up of the strokes and streaks left behind by the movements of the brush or knife.” Greenberg’s awareness of ‘painterly’ qualities in non-representational art led him to coin the term ‘post-painterly abstraction’ in reference to the following wave of abstract art that moved away from expressionism’s impulsive placement of texture and colour in paint.</p>
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<p>Greenberg was not the first to utilize the term ‘painterly'; it can even be applied to earlier movements of representational art such as impressionism. The term is derivative of the German concept of ‘malerisch’ (painterly) which classifies painting that is “opposite of linear, plastic or formed linear design.” The term was disseminated by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin (d. 1945)</p>
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<p>The concept of painterliness surfaced again in conjunction with ‘<i>action painting</i>,’ which was defined by another art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952. Rosenberg as well as Clement Greenberg and abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, all advocated that ‘<i>action painting</i>’ was “an arena which to come to terms with the act of creation.” Rosenberg emphasized ‘action paintings’ as being the finished product left behind from the act of painting itself, which was the ultimate work of art in the whole process.</p>
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<p>Painterly gestures are created during the “act of the painter,” whom makes various movements that lead to paint applications of varying formation. ‘Action painting’ shares close ideas and practices with <i>les automatistes </i>in that works of art were to be created with no preconceived notions, whereby unconscious and instinctive feelings were to be the driving force behind spontaneous and impulsive placement of paint. <i>Les Automatistes</i> were a group of painters that were avant-garde and at the very forefront of the art world even on a worldwide scale. It has been argued that these Quebecois painters were the first organized group of lyrical abstract painters (and not those from prominent art centres such as New York or Paris). They created and printed a manifesto called the <i>Refus Global</i>. Although most of <i>les automatistes </i>would have been familiar with the Parisian and New York art scenes as well.</p>
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<p>I am glad to say that when I merely enjoy the ‘physical remnants of a spontaneous act of creativity' (aka 'a painting'), I am actually considering the same things that the art critics were by drawing attention to the painterly qualities of abstract painting. On that note, I will leave off with a quote from Paul-Emile Borduas himself about the simple pleasures offered by a painting.</p>
<p><i>The essential beauty of an art work is made up of nothing but its song. </i></p>
<p>- Paul-Emile Borduas</p>
<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
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Vancouver Mastershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07909857548974102522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006991079675125431.post-83263344326791850152014-05-16T12:22:00.000-07:002014-05-16T12:22:29.441-07:00SUMMER IS COMING: CANADIAN ARTISTS AT THE BEACH<p>SUMMER IS COMING: CANADIAN ARTISTS AT THE BEACH</p>
<p>I recently noticed that since I have started writing this blog over half a dozen of them mention James W. Morrice in some capacity. Clearly I am of the belief that Morrice is one of the most significant artists in Canadian art history. I thought about writing a blog fully devoted to Morrice, but there is already such thorough biographical and career-related material available that it would end up being repetitive. I decided that instead of writing solely about Morrice I would pick another topic that includes his work. I am especially keen to honour his work at the moment because he is featured in an exhibition at the Musee des Beaux-Arts du Quebec.</p>
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<p>The other artist featured in the same Quebec exhibition is John Lyman. I have not as of yet included this artist in a blog, but I very much appreciate the work of Lyman. I particularly enjoy his beach scenes, and I feel that they rank right up with the best modern Canadian artists of his time. He was truly in his element when depicting his observations of beach culture. His work was modern and foreward thinking during his time, but to me the beach scenes have a timeless neo-impressionistic quality.</p>
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<p>In fact, there are many beach scene paintings by historical Canadian artists that I deem to be superb works of art. Therefore I have decided to dedicate this blog to highlighting some of them from Masters Gallery and from major public collections. As some of Morrice’s great works were fabulous beach scenes, I am still incorporating him into the blog.</p>
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<p>The fascination with the beach as a leisure pursuit was a novelty available to an increasingly large number of people during the relatively peaceful and prosperous period of the second half of the nineteenth century through until the start of the First World War. The growing middle class could afford the time and expense of taking leisurely trips to the beach locally or further afield at one of the growing number of vacation resorts in places such as Brittany and Normandy in France Lake Como in Italy or Cornwall in England. Why not paint scenes that present happiness and pleasure? Both good pastimes and beautiful landscapes could be celebrated at once through painting on the beach.</p>
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<p>Artists could also celebrate the youthful innocence and joys of childhood and motherhood through imagery of women and children at play and at pleasure on the beach. Late Victorian and Edwardian (or Belle Epoque in France) Society was newly conscious and taken with the concept of childhood and the endearing innocence it could hold. Being very much part of their epoch the painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries enthusiastically confirmed this mentality towards children through angelic depictions of them. The beach was a perfect setting for this, and many Canadian and European painters placed figures of women and children exclusively in their painted beaches.</p>
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<p>Leisure time at the beach also opened the doors to a range of new sporting activities for people to try, such as swimming and sailing in addition to sunbathing and playing in the sand. The props used for these activities could be useful to artists, as they could use the sails on sailboats as means of adding colour or helping direct the composition harmoniously. The same could be said for the beautiful fabric tents and umbrellas. I enjoy seeing all of the inventive ways that impressionist and post-impressionist artists have utilized beach paraphernalia to enhance their pictures, filling them with bright sails and sand pails, vibrantly striped tents and umbrellas, and so much more.</p>
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<p>Most of the artists whom are referred to as ‘Canadian Impressionists’ travelled to France or England to paint in the midst of the Belle Époque. Some major names include William Brymner, Paul Peel, Blair Bruce, Laura Muntz, George Reid, J.W. Morrice, Marc-Aurele Suzor-Cote, Albert Robinson, William Clapp, Clarence Gagnon, John Russell, AY Jackson, Maurice Cullen, and Helen McNicoll.</p>
<p>One of the first en plein air painters to capture beachside leisure was Eugene Boudin, a forerunner to impressionism. Boudin was followed shortly thereafter by the impressionists, like Claude Monet, and post-impressionists, like Edouard Manet.</p>
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<p>The Canadians would have been familiar with these artists, and possibly some even knew them and studied with them in Paris. They all became equally enthusiastic to visit beaches and paint the fashionable phenomenon of beach leisure and activity. The beach was also a good place to practice rendering the effects of natural light on landscape and ocean. Canadians excelled at this subject matter as much as they did painting at home in a typical snowy winter.</p>
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<p>Over the decades Masters Gallery has sold many fabulous beach scenes by all of the Canadian Impressionists mentioned above whom were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and beyond. I hope you enjoy some of these works that feature a plethora of sunlight, sand, shimmering waves, sailboats, sunbathers, tents and umbrellas, sails and pails, children and so much more.</p>
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<p>And last but not least, some Morrice beach scenes followed by others by John Lyman that are past highlights from Masters Gallery.</p>
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<p>BY: JILL TURNER</p>
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