HIS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mont Orford, Paul Peel, 6 Years
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Stirred by nationalist vision: art is a voice . Art could also express and shape canadian identity. The 1886 colonial and indian exhibition in london: opportunity for potential tourists to view displays and paintings of artists. % of canadian artists trained in paris. Human form: plaster casts and later living models. Canadian artists in 1870s opted for powerful landscapes. Canadian painting showed several key features: oils, not watercolour: better for grandeur, landscape like poets" response to mystique of land. Surrogate for history usually nationalist painters painted heroic figures. Link between landscape and nationalism landscape nationalism : group of seven were not first. Great age of landscape painting in canada. One of 1st canadian artists to paint rockies (cpr 1886) Sunrise on the saguenay (1880: epic and majestic, not postcard view, stillness accentuates monumentality, invitees us to dream, impact of luminism of hudson river school. The louise mountains from laggan 1887 by lucius o"brien.
