HIS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mortal Sin, Roch Carrier, Social Realism
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Quebec artists started to turn away from landscape and its near- ly-monopoly o o. Called for an art more modern, more international. To subordinate art to the constraints of subject-matter was an obstacle to the development of a truly modern approach. 1940s influenced by recent trends in european art, especially abstraction. Needed to liberate imagination and access unconscious mind (chance vs. Fired from l"ecole du meuble (less conservative than l"ecole des beaux and surrealism choice) To establish himself as world-class painter art (random, improvisation) o. Focus of younger painters art to be fully free and anti-establishment. Art must be spontaneous automatism unpremeditated form of creating. Artist as revel (still tied to capitalist class by umbilical cord of gold ) Rejection of representation, space, perspective and even colour. 1st exhibit in montreal, then nyc by borduas and his students 1946. Regarded as 1st exhibit by group of abstract painters in canada.
