Canadian Art

We've seen alot of landscape painting and have been discusing if Landscape is the paradigm to being Canadian.
Are these, canadian and a wild landscape, terms interchangable? In developing a sense of national pride, why is it always the landscape that we look to first? There are all these images like David Fowler's "A Woodland Wanderer" that represent Canada as this great undeveloped space. Fowler was even an immigrant to Canada, so his sense of nationhood would really be created by his experiences and not by a pre-conceived notion bred into us.... I think that this will be something to think more on in the coming classes.

John Hammond, Bay of Fundy Fishing Boats

We talked about many of the original "Canadian Artists".. such as William Notman and those that were in his studios. One that stood out for me was John Hammond and his semi-impressionistic, semi-tonalist style. One thing I find really cool about taking a Canadian Art class is that we get a chance to study the works of the artists who have taught and been taught at Mount Allison, such as Hammond who was the head of the fine arts departments many years back. His "On the Marsh" is even used as promotional material for the Owen's, but up until today I knew not a thing about him.