ARTHIST 3B03 Lecture 4: The French Connection Lecture
13 Mar 2018
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Late nineteenth-century painting in canada: the french connection: barbizon, small village in france, close to paris, the hague school highly collected by canadian collectors in the early 1900s. Anton mouge dutch painter the hague school: trying to create the natural world. Barbizon about looking and creating, rooted in a particular place. International community of artists who live and study there. They go out from there and paint the forest around the area. Getting out into nature fundamental to the experience: homer watson they never go to barbican, they are never part of that experience but they are de facto members. Did spend time in england, called the canadian constable . Experiencing and coming to know something and then depicting what that experience / relationship is. Canadian art eruptions of originality, and strong artists who very much shift the narrative. Until the twentieth century you have artists looking to the vanguard elsewhere.
