Canadian&FirstNation Art Name:_____________ /42 FirstNations Art Grade10 - Canadian& FirstNations ArtQuestions Environment Materials 1.LookattheNative Artflowchart andcompletethefollowing phrases:(6) People Objects Environment: Culture Art Materials: AnExample:FirstNations Art People: ENVIRONMENT: Nature,woodlands,plains,coastalregions MATERIALS: Wood,leather,stone,bones,clay Culture: PEOPLE: Hunters,farmers WestCoast:Haida Knownforthetallfirm CULTURE: Insyncwiththespiritofnature Objects: OBJECTS: Tools,pottery,clothesweapons totem,whichhada balancedsymmetrical ART: Masks,totems,jewellery,specificdesigns Art: design.Consistingof organicandgeometric 2.Whattypeofartandmaterials shapestogether,carved CentralWoodland areeachofthefollowinggroups intoawoodpole. TheCentralWoodland associatedwith?(4) peopleproducedavariety ofbirchbarkcanoes, WestCoast/Haida: asymmetricalmasks, willowbaskets, alongwithwood, Prairies/Plains: furandleathergoods. NorthInuit Becauseofthelackofavailablewood, CentralWoodland: theNorthinuitpeoplesubstituedstone, bone,andfurformaterials. Theirdesignswereverysimilartothe NorthInuit: Haida’s. Prairies/Plains Becauseofthelackoftrees,thePrairieandPlains nativesusedleather,bone,andstoneformaterials. /10 Theyarewell-knownfortheirclothingandjewellery. CorneliusKrieghoff EarlyCanadian Artists 3.DoyouthinkBerczy's WilliamBerczy portraitofJosephBrantis Consideredthe Cornelius realisticoridealisticandwhy?(2) finestCanadian Krieghoff artistofhistime, wasmainlya Berczyarrived Canadianlandscape inCanadafrom painter,althoughin Europewithskills manyofhispaintings W.Berczy, asaportraitist. thethemeof “leshabitans” iswoven self-portrait, exquisitelyintohisworks. 1798-99. Hispaintingsareknownasgenrepaintings. “Genre” meanseverydaylife, “Christmas OziasLeduc card” scenes,manypeople,buildings, 4. AreKrieghoff's OziasLeducpaintings animalsandadistantlandscape. ChristmasCard werequietandreflective, scenesanaccurate andimageofruralfamily depictionof lifeinQuebec.Richcolour Canadiansettlers insofttoneswereused, atthattime? suchasbrowns,goldsand Whyorwhynot?(1) oranges. A balancedandcontrolledWilliamBerczy,PortraitofJoseph stylewasusedtoexpressasense Brant,1805. ofpurposeandorderintheworld.Hepaintedeverydayobjectsandsimple scenesthathad “spirit"searchingforinnerspiritualmeaninginallthings. OziasLeduc,Boywith Bread,1892-99. Krieghoff’s Habitant 5.Whatkindofmood/ Farm, feelingdoyougetfrom 1856. lookingattheBoywith Breadpaintingby OziasLeduc?(1) Krieghoff’s SleighRace Acrossthe Ice,1861. /4 CanadianImpressionism TomThomson Heisconsideredoneofthemost 6.Whatisthedistinctiveapproach importantandinfluentialearly portrayedin Tom Thompsonand Canadianartists. Togetherwith theGroupofSeven'sartwork?(1) membersoftheGroupofSeven, hecreatedadistinctapproachto portrayingruggedCanadian landscapes. TomThomson,CanoeLake 1913-14. Tom Thomsondiedmysteriouslyattheageof39whilecanoeing.HefoundedtheGroup 7.Whatkindofmood/feelingdoyouget ofSeven,butwasnot amember.Itstartedthreeyearsafterhisdeath,byhisfriends. from Tom Thomson’sCanoeLakeand HegrewupinLeith,Ontarioandisburiedtherenow. The Tom Thompson ArtGalleryis why?(2) locatedbesidetheOwenSoundPublicLibrary. TheGroupofSeven (1920-31) Thesevenfoundingartists: 8.Listthe7foundingartistsofthe LawrenS.Harris,J.E.H.MacDonald, GroupofSeven.(7) ArthurLismer,FrederickVarley, FrankJohnston,FranklinCarmichael and A.Y.Jackson. TheGroupofSeven representedagrowingmovement 9.Compare A.J.Casson's TheWhite inCanadiannationalism,abeliefthatCanadianart Pineand Tom Thompson'sCanoe mustbetrulyinspiredbyCanadaitself. Lakeandthenlist2stylistic similaritiesbetweenthetwo works.(2) A.J.Casson,TheWhitePine,1957. Geometric,smoothandpowerfulindesign. Thereisabalanceofshape,space,lineand 10.DescribehowLawrenHarris's colourHarrisbeganbypaintingalmost createsasenseofbalanceinhis monochrome,semi-abstractblue MaligneLake,JasperParkpainting studiesofthe Arcticsolitude,leadinginto from1924.(1) hisabstraction.Heisaveryspiritualartist. LawrenHarris,MaligneLake,JasperPark,1924. /13 EmilyCarr,Forest, 11.DescribeEmilyCarr'suseoflineinher BritishColumbia. BritishColumbiapainting.What EmilyCarr 1931-32. mood/feelingiscreatedasaresult?(2) TheworkoftheGroupofSeven playedanimportantroleinthe line: careerofEmilyCarr,whowasto becomeCanada'sbest-knownearly mood/feeling: modernartist.InherForest,British Columbiapaintingonesenses somethingmore. 12.Whatkindofmoodorfeelingiscreated inMorriseau's,PowerfromWithin asaresult ofhisuseofshapeandpattern?(1) NorvalMorriseau NorvalMorriseauwasbornin1931,on 13.Whatelementsorprinciplesdoes theSandyPointReserve,Ontario.His Morriseauusetounifythevarious FirstNations AffiliationisOjibwa animalsinhisNoOneStands Alone A self-taughtpainter,printmaker,and painting?(1) illustrator,Morrisseaucreatedan innovativevocabularywhichwas initiallycriticizedintheNativecommunity foritsdisclosureoftraditionalspiritual knowledge. Hiscolourful,figurativeimages, delineatedwithheavyblackformlines andx-rayarticulations,were . characteristicallysignedwiththesyllabic spellingofCopper Thunderbird,the nameMorrisseau'sgrandfathergave NorvalMorriseau, him. NoOneStands Alone. NorvalMorriseau,Power HandEmbellished. An fromWithin. Hand interdependenceof Embellished. TheShaman allearth'screatures, embodiesthespiritofthe thelifeofthesea,the greatBeartoprotecthis landandtheskyare maritalunion. allconnected. /4 Modern Art(1945-1980s) RegionalstylesreflectthediversityofCanada.Abstractart becamethefaceofmodernart. TheEveningVisitor,1956. JeanPaulLemieux Lemieux painted 14.HowdoesJeanPaulLemieuxcreate simplifiedandabstractfigures. afeelingofisolationinhis TheEvening Hisworkreflectsthe Visitorpaintingfrom1956?(1) quiet,religiousyetisolated QuebecofmodernCanada. 15.WhatartisticstyledidtheQuebec painterRiopelleemployinhisworkand towhataffect?(2) JeanPaulRiopelle 16.WhatartisticstyledidthePainters RiopellewasanimportantQuebecartistwho Elevenemployintheirwork?(1) movedintototalabstractioninhisworkand focusedonpatternsoflightcolourmovement JeanPaulRiopelle,Sanstitre,1969. andhisworkwasnon-representational. PaintersEleven(1953-1959) ThemembersofPaintersEleven included JackBush,OscarCahén,Hortense Gordon, TomHodgson, AlexandraLuke, JockMacdonald,RayMead,Kazuo 17.Whatkindofmood/feelingdoyouget Nakamura,WilliamRonald,Harold Town fromHarold Town'sConversations andWalter Yarwood. betweenClownspaintingfrom1953 andwhy?(2) Thiswasnotagroupwithacommonmanifesto,butwith alessrevolutionaryagenda. Theysimplywantedto paintinthenewlessrestrictiveabstractexpressionist style. Theirsimilarity,orunity,wasintheideaof showingtheirworktogether;findingavenuetodo HaroldTown,Conversationsbetween that,andreinforcingeachothersdiversityand Clowns,1953. individualism. Townstatedthattheywere"sickofbeing toldwheretohang,howtohang,andwhentohang". /6 PostModern Art Canadianartinthe1970s,80s,90swasandisacollectionofmanystyles.Influencesincludemedia, 17.Whatartisticstylesandinfluences Surrealism,Neo-expressionism,Realism,andnewartmediums.Postmodernismisaphrase,which definePostModernCanadian art?(1) meansafter-modernism.Itsuggestsawiderangeofstylesandasenseofchange. ClaudeBreeze ClaudeBreezeisaprofessoratthe YorkUniversity in Toronto.Heusesthemedia,violence,and 18.WhatimagerydoesBreezeusein soicalissuesasasourceofimagesinhiswork. TheHomeViewer#4andwhatmessage ClaudeBreeze, isbeingconveyed?(2) TheHomeViewer#4,1979. 19.WhatkindofreminderwasJoeFafard tryingtocreatewithhis “ThePasture” sculptureasaresultofit'ssitespecific JoeFafard location?(1) JoeFafard produces comical clay sculptures, 20.HowdoesMichaelSnowcreatea people, senseofmovementinhis “FlightStop” animalsand sculpturefrom1977.(1) artists.It's ironic, funnywork thatasksustoseeartinalighterway.Fafard'ssculptureentitled “ThePasture” consistsofa herdofsevenbronzecowslyingpeacefullyonthelawnatthewestsideofthe TDCentre Courtyard. Accordingtotheartist,heintendedtoprovidearemindertocity-dwellersoftheir dependenceonthecountry,creatingtranquilityintheheartof Toronto'sbusinessdistrict. MichaelSnow,FlightStop, MichaelSnow Fibreglass,1979. MichaelSnowisanotherimportant Toronto artistwhocreatedthissculptureentitled "FlightStop"atthe TorontoEatonCenter in1979usingfiberglassflyinggeese. /5.