ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Picturesque
3 Sep 2018
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Something that is pleasing to the eye. Something you look at because you want to and you enjoy it. Beautiful - regular, smaller in scale, softer, proportioned, feminine. Sublime - dramatic, larger scale, light from above. Canadian artists and writers in the 20s often turned their eyes to england for inspiration. But they found this art not faithful to what they saw in canada and around them. They had to invent a new kind of beauty that was faithful and representative of the canada they knew. Group of seven approached canadian landscape in a way it had never been painted before. They didn"t want to paint a english-canadian landscape.
