Grade 10 Visual Arts

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Grade 10 Visual Arts

• Canadian Art
• Major Project

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Painting has been a part of recorded the human
experience for thousands of years.
People painted to communicate ideas before they
had an official language to express themselves.
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When we are children we draw to express ourselves
before we can speak or read.
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Some believe that visual language is our first
language.
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But we dont all see the world in the same way.
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A painting is a creative visual description of a
person, place or idea.
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Our painting project topic will be Canadian
Painting
and the way it is a creative visual description
of this place we call Canada.
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Early Canadian Art explored the new frontier
and documented the way of life.






Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810-1871)Scene in the
Northwest, 1845-1846
Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian, 1815-72) Breaking
Up of a Country Ball in Canada, Early Morning,
1857
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The Group of Seven were a collective of Canadian
artists who were convinced that a nation could
only be a true nation when it had its own strong
style of art. The Canadian landscape was unique
and these artists chose that as their subject
matter.
Lawren S. Harris Canadian 1885-1970
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Group of Seven
"The Jack Pine"  by Tom Thomson
A.J. Casson
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The Group of Seven
A.Y. Jackson The Red Maple , 1914 Fred
Varley, Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay
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Group of Seven
James Edward Harvey MacDonald
Arthur Lismer (1885-1969)
(1873-1932)
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Emily Carr Being female, Emily Carr was not
accepted into the official Group of Seven
brotherhood. It is now recognized that she was
every bit as good as they were.
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Charles Comfort
Carl Schaefer

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Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art
Jean-Paul Riopelle
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Painters Eleven http//www.painters11.com/painter
s11.html
William Ronald 1993-Acrylic.
Jock Macdonald
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Eastern Canadian Artists
Alex Colville 1920 - present
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Mary Pratt 1935 - present
Eastern Canadian Artists
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Molly Lamb Bobak 1922 present
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Eastern Canadian ArtistsPaul Hannon (Halifax)
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You can check out any Canadian artist you wish.
You may refer to the following list if you
likehttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Canada
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Nova Scotian artists http//www.studiorally.ca/in
dex2.html