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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.
The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative / Le Réseau d'étude sur l'histoire des artistes canadiennes (CWAHI) is a project developed by Concordia University, Montreal to redress the balance that has placed historical Canadian female artists on a lower level than their male contemporaries. It was begun as the "Canadian Women Artists ...
This is a list of current and former artists for Asylum Records. An asterisk (*) denotes an artist who no longer records for the label. This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Canadian art refers to the visual (including painting, photography, and printmaking) as well as plastic arts (such as sculpture) originating from the geographical area of contemporary Canada. Art in Canada is marked by thousands of years of habitation by Indigenous peoples followed by waves of immigration which included artists of European ...
In an era when women artists were viewed as little more than hobbyists and were left out of the mainstream world of professional art, the Beaver Hall Group was the first Canadian artists association in which women played a central role. [5] Importantly, they not only painted but also exhibited and sold their work. [6]
James Archibald Houston OC FRSA (June 12, 1921 – April 17, 2005) was a Canadian artist, designer, children's author and filmmaker who played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to the Inuit. The Inuit named him Saumik, which means "the left-handed one".
Painters Eleven are credited with making English Canada's art-buying public more accustomed to abstract expressionist painting. Their influence on the next generation of Canadian artists was immense, and their art is now a prominent feature in public galleries and corporate and private collections throughout Canada and in many international ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Black Canadian artists and Category:20th-century Canadian male artists and Category:20th-century Canadian women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.