1. Canadian Art Major Project
Grade 10 Visual Arts
Canadian Art
Major Project

2. 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.

3. When we are children we draw to express ourselves before we can speak or read.

4. Some believe that visual language is our first language.

5. But we don’t all see the world in the same way.

6. A painting is a creative visual description of a person, place or idea.

7. Our painting project topic will be : Canadian Painting
and the way it is a creative visual description
of this place we call ‘Canada’.

8. Early Canadian Art explored the ‘new frontier’ and documented the way of life.
Paul Kane (Canadian, ) Scene in the Northwest,
Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian, ) Breaking Up of a Country Ball in Canada, Early Morning, 1857

9. 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

10. Group of Seven
"The Jack Pine"  by Tom Thomson A.J. Casson

11. The Group of Seven
A.Y. Jackson: The Red Maple , Fred Varley, Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay

12. Group of Seven James Edward Harvey MacDonald Arthur Lismer (1885-1969)
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13. 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.

14. Charles Comfort
Carl Schaefer

15. Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art
Jean-Paul Riopelle

16. Painters Eleven: http://www.painters11.com/painters11.html
William Ronald 1993-Acrylic Jock Macdonald

17. Eastern Canadian Artists
Alex Colville present

18. Eastern Canadian Artists
Mary Pratt: present

19. Molly Lamb Bobak: 1922 – present

20. Eastern Canadian Artists Paul Hannon (Halifax)

21. You can check out any Canadian artist you wish
You can check out any Canadian artist you wish. You may refer to the following list if you like:
Nova Scotian artists: