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Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven:
The Canadian Landscape in the Cultural Identity
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because shes something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. ... Emily Car
The diverse, expressive, spirited, and passionate history of Canadian art is instrumental to the Canadian cultural identity. ... Specifically, Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven are considered a major staple of Canadian art. Through the work and development of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven the contribution of Canada’s cultural identity was sparked in to what is favourably known as truly Canadian art. It is the correlation between the identity, cultural development, theme, and technical factors that will be made to highlight from their contribution to defining the Canadian cultural identity. The Group of Seven has effectively created the standard by which all modern Canadian art is compared, and illustrated the dominant role and influence that their art has contributed to Canada’s artistic repertoire. ... Abbe Pommier had been recruited from France for religious work in the Canadian missions. ... Although, Pommier painted his idea of Canada, his style and contributions are not intrinsically Canadian. "The majority of early Canadian painters painted in a provincial mannerist or some other provincial style, and were painters working in Canada rather than Canadian painters."
From a historical perspective, artists like Abbe Pommier were pioneers and adventures in the development of the Canadian culture and identity. ... Even though settlements of Canadian soil constituted different settlers, they all had a common goal and that goal was inspired by the need to create something different and not be what they had been born from. This often resulted in developing something familiar to each settler but with a Canadian twist or the identity, which ultimately equates to the sum of that manifestation. Like those that came before them Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven created art, which represented the infancy of the Canadian identity.
Although, artists similar to Abbe Pommier set the stage for painting in Canada it was Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven that set the standards. Without the contributions of the original Group of Seven; which comprised of seven members who included J. ... Varley (1881-1969) and Frank Johnston (1888-1949); art would have not had it’s path or vision of Canada through Canadian eyes.
Approximate Word count = 2011
Approximate Pages = 8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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