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Since the 1920s, artists in English Canada had been heavily influenced by the landscape painting of the Group of Seven, and the Canadian Group of Painters.The Canadian public often regarded modernist movements such as Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism as bizarre and subversive.
Vale was introduced to the world of visual art by her husband, Albert Franck, [7] who painted views of Toronto backyards and houses. [8] In the late 1940s, Vale began to experiment with her husband's paints and brushes. In contrast to Franck's paintings of urban scenes, Vale's subjects were often imaginative and even imaginary. [9]
The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A People's Art Toronto, New Canada Publications, 1974. ISBN 0-919600-12-3. Morris, Jerrold. 100 Years of Canadian Drawings Toronto, Methuen, 1980. ISBN 0-458-94570-6. Murray, Joan (1999). Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn. OCLC 260193722. Nasgaard, Roald (2008). Abstract Painting ...
War Art in Canada: A Critical History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0271-5. Bryce, Alan D (2007), Art smart : the intelligent guide to investing in the Canadian art market, Dundurn Group, ISBN 9781550026764; Bradley, Jessica and Lesley Johnstone. (1994) Sightlines: Reading Contemporary Canadian Art. Montreal: Artexte ...
Established in 2012, the Art Canada Institute is a non-governmental initiative spearheaded by Founder and Executive Director Sara Angel, C.M.. [2] A Trudeau Scholar and arts journalist with a background in publishing, Angel intended to address what she viewed as an absence of accessible and inclusive material on Canadian visual culture through the creation of the ACI, which has been described ...
The following is a list of Canadian artists working in visual or plastic media (including 20th-century artists working in video art, performance art, or other types of new media). See other articles for information on Canadian literature, music, cinema and culture. For more specific information on the arts in Canada, see Canadian art.
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Canada in 2017, the Gallery undertook a C$7.4 million renovation to open the Canadian and Indigenous Art: From Time Immemorial to 1967 gallery. [42] This gallery displays the progression of Canadian art and history, exhibiting Canadian and Indigenous works side by side. [42]
The Picture Gallery of Canadian History is a three volume pictorial history of Canada, written and illustrated by historical artist Charles William Jefferys. [1] It was published by Ryerson Press ; Volume 1: Discovery to 1763 was released in 1942, Volume 2: 1763 to 1830 in 1945, and Volume 3: 1830 to 1900 in 1950.