Canadian Art

Oh good.. more about the Group of Seven.

The most interesting thing that I found in this class was the process of designing the logo for the group. It's just a 7 inside a circle, but it took many more tries and designs before it got there. My notes from today pretty much consist entirely of 7's inside circles and other shapes.

I also noted down "positive & negative space, coexist on one plane". I think it was in reference to a Tom Thomson painting. I'm probably putting way too much into this quote because it's getting a bit late and I'm getting a bit tired - but it, in a way, is really deep and pretty much sums up everything that I like about the Group of Seven.

Yes, there were a bit gendered and all similar types of people, but from what I can tell, they were all very open to working with other artists for the betterment of the craft in general.

I also found it really interesting that alot of them became war painters. In their depictions of trees and mountains you don't see any of the danger or anger involved in war. Maybe one of the reasons that they all loved going to the woods so much was to escape the violence of the time.

Zegirja Rexhepi - Destroyed Violin

I started looking into this a bit more and found an article by CBC about wartime and its effect or relationship with arts and culture - if you're interested you can find it here.