Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
(There is also a version in the Art Gallery of Ontario collection). [5] Among his themes are power, class, industrialization, and fear. [1] In 1982, he said that he believed all art has the potential for social and political change. [6] Few artists in Canada have protested war in their art as single-mindedly as Scott did.
Sobey Art Foundation: For young Canadian artists Strathbutler Award: Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation: For a New Brunswick visual artist. The Marketer Art Competition: The Marketer Magazine: For a Canadian visual artist Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award: Canada Council: Canadian artists judged to be outstanding in their mid-careers VIVA Awards ...
Arnaud Maggs (May 5, 1926 – November 17, 2012) [1] was a Canadian artist and photographer. Born in Montreal, Maggs is best known for stark portraits arranged in grid-like arrangements, [2] which illustrate his interest in systems of identification and classification.
The stamps were released on the day that a retrospective of his work organized to recognize the centenary of the artist's birth opened at the National Gallery of Canada. [6] The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (abbreviated as MNBAQ) held the exhibition Jean Paul Lemieux: Silence and Space in 2022.
Lorraine O'Grady, a conceptual artist who challenged the understanding of race, sex and class in art and society through her avant-garde works, has died. She was 90.
Michael James Aleck Snow was born in Toronto on December 10, 1928. [1] He studied at Upper Canada College and the Ontario College of Art. [2] He had his first solo exhibition in 1957.
Bertram Richard Brooker (March 31, 1888 – March 21, 1955) [1] was a Canadian abstract painter. [2] A self-taught polymath (the first in Canadian art), [3] in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, copywriter, graphic designer, and advertising executive. [4]
Numerous examples of his work are also on display at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. Thomson's influence can be seen in the work of later Canadian artists, including Emily Carr, Goodridge Roberts, Harold Town, and Joyce Wieland. [70]