FAH292H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paul Peel, Canadian Art, Academic Art
8 May 2020
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Impacted lives of indigenous people of canada: rachelle lafond, chiichinuu our home" , academic art, challenges, barbarizon, group of artists who painted together in barbarizon village near paris, ex. Likelike; relatable to audience: strong light shining on boy"s hand and the page he"s reading, moment of enlightenment through reading. In the orchard 1892, broken fragmented brush strokes for leaves. Image of leisure scene: opens up the forms; rather than focusing on the lines, studying light, more free use of colour, experimented brush stroke, figures were usually academic style, clearly outlined, ex. figures in the orchard, ex. The angelus 1857-9: representative of rural working class in france, depicted as pious and hardworking, different styles in depiction of the landscape though, more realist. Homer watson: associated with the canadian art club, became president after horatio walker, also shows rural subjects, compared for his subject matter and dramatic treatment of composition to british artist.
