Representatives of the seven-person school.
(1890 was born in Aurilia, Ontario, and 1945 died in Toronto) Franklin Carmichael was the youngest member of the painting group of seven, and he played a minor role in the history of this movement. 19 1 1 year, he came to Toronto to work for Grip printing art company, where he met MacDonald and Thomson. On the recommendation of Lismeyer, Karl Michel studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 19 13 and 19 14, but he had to return to Canada because of the war. He shared a studio with Thomas john thomson in the studio building until he got married in the autumn of 19 15. He worked in a commercial art company in Toronto until 1932 became the head of the printing art and commercial art department of Ontario Art Institute. As a printmaker and illustrator, he created a large number of watercolors in the late 1920s.
Karl Michel's works show its exquisiteness and elegance in design. Although his more stylized oil paintings lack the rationalism tendency reflected by the serious symbolism in Hades' works, his works have charming and strong colors and atmosphere. Unlike other artists, Karl Michel only paints in Ontario. Since the mid-1920s, the circular outline of Laclau Mountain, a mining city in southern sudbury, has been his favorite painting place.
Second, Lawrence Stewart Harris.
(Born in Brantford, Ontario, 1885, died in Vancouver, Ontario, 1970) Lawrence Steward Harris was born in the family of a Baptist and Presbyterian minister, and also in the family of a businessman. Harris is the only painter in the Seven-member School who has an independent source of income. 1904- 1908 He studied fine arts in Berlin first. His early Canadian landscape paintings described the streets and lanes in the old district of Toronto, and he described the colors there in a subtle way. Until the 1920s, he continued to create similar works, describing small towns in Toronto and Ontario. During the war years, his works were mainly decorative landscapes, often trees covered with heavy snow. His original works depicting the scenery of Algoma are still characterized by decorative style, although the tone of his works gradually becomes dim, and his brushes become thicker and more expressive. Harris 192 1 year's trip to Halifax, and 1925' s trip to Grassby and Nova Scotia, he personally observed the miners' strike and the losses and damages caused by the strike, which were also catalysts for his spiritual exploration.
Harris's works on the northern shore of Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains are determined by his study of spiritualism and his more rational landscape view. Here, the picture form loses its structure, and color and light become the symbols of the interaction between spirit and matter. Harris is the wisest person in the Seven-member Painting School. He enthusiastically inspires others and pushes this movement to a brand-new field. That is, he first proposed to build a photo studio in 193 1 and initiated everyone to go to Algoma. As a result of these trips to Algoma, the postwar art movement was revived. Although the Seven-member Painting School has no formal organization, Harris can be said to be the core figure among its members.
1934, Harris divorced, and then he got married again, first moved to New Hampshire, and then moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1938. There, together with other painters, he founded the Transcendental Painting School. Most of his works since the mid-1930s are abstract works derived from landscape and spiritual symbols. 1940 He moved to Vancouver after the war broke out.
Iii. Alexander Young Jackson Alexander Young Jackson
(1882 was born in Montreal, 1974 died in Kleinberg, Ontario) When Jackson was thirteen years old, he said that he had to support his family because his father had abandoned his wife and children. Jackson works in a photo production company and attends evening classes at the provincial trade school of the Art and Manufacturing Association. I studied briefly in Chicago, 1907 and 1908 at Julian Art School in Paris, 1900 65438+2 months ago,191and1966. With the encouragement of doctors Harris, MacDonald and mccallum, Jackson moved to Toronto 19 13 1 in June. The war made Jackson live in Toronto for less than a year, and then returned to Montreal, where he joined the army. 1965438+June 2006, injured in France. After working as an artist at the Canadian War Memorial, he returned to Toronto on 19 19 and reconnected with his fellow artists. As the only Montreal painter in the school of painting, he has established close ties with independent painters in that city.
Sometimes, Jackson's works show unusual elegance (see works 26 and 27); Sometimes it seems to resist temptation, but it also shows excessive severity and courage (see works 22 and 25). As one critic said, Jackson hides a strong masculinity under a very delicate appearance.
Jackson is probably the strongest member of the school of painting. He likes to explore new areas and is eager to see what other mountains are. He painted almost all over the country and even went to baffin island to paint 1965. He is a bachelor. Until 1955, he lived and worked in the studio building and became a very influential figure in the Canadian art world.
Four. Francis Hans Johnston
(1888 was born in Toronto, 1940 died in Toronto) Franz) Johnston 1906 to 1908 studied in Toronto, and studied under Daniel Garber in19/0/2. He was appointed to record the activities of the Royal Air Force Air Shooting School in Beamsville, Ontario, and worked at the Canadian War Memorial on 19 18. 19 18 autumn and 19 19 autumn, he accompanied MacDonald and Harris to Algoma. Johnston participated in the first exhibition of painting school on 1920. Many of his works about Algoma are watercolors, while others are more descriptive and decorative. Because of the use of this painting method, it has a certain implicit and plain effect. This is the characteristic of his main works. Johnston is an extremely energetic man, but he has different views on the idealism that other members of the painting school are concerned about. Maybe he lacks confidence in the goals of the painting school. Worried about his family income, 192 1 autumn, he left painting school and moved to Winnipeg to teach. 1924 returned to Toronto, and in the following ten years, he openly opposed the thoughts and influences of modern art and the Seven-Man Painting School.
Verb (short for verb) Arthur Rismer
(Born in Sheffield, England, 1885, died in Montreal, 1969) Arthur Lismer was born in an unusual family with only one religion. His father was a cloth dealer, and his brother later took an active part in the workers' political movement. Lismeier studied at Sheffield Art School from 1899 to 1906. 1906- 1908 studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Then I went back to Sheffield to work in printing design. 19 1 1 immigrated to Toronto in, worked with MacDonald, Thomson, Carl Michel, Johnston, etc., and later developed into a painter. In order to support his family, he moved to Halifax in the autumn of 19 16 and taught at the Victoria College of Art and Design. He also worked for the Canadian War Memorial, recording the activities of the port and the evacuation of soldiers after the armistice of World War I. He returned to Toronto on 19 19 and served as the vice president of the Ontario Academy of Fine Arts. 1927 left the college and was inspired by the works of Austrian painter Franz to organize a children's art activity project in Toronto Art Museum. In 1930s, he also established similar activities in South African schools and taught at Columbia University in new york. /kloc-moved to Montreal in 0/940 and became the president of the Art College of Montreal Art Museum.
Since Lismeyer has been engaged in full-time teaching since 19 16, he seldom has the opportunity to travel, although he went to Algonkin at 192 1, to Lake Superior at 1927, and to Mount Loki the next year. George Bay is Lismeyer's favorite place because he can spend time with his family there.
Lismeyer insists that art is a way of life, not a professional activity. He regards art as an economic, industrial and aesthetic factor in community life, expressing a country's creative will, not the acquisition of power. He emphasized the moral and social importance of purely creative activities. Lismeyer is a very clever man. He insisted on sketching and created some unusual cartoons.
6. james edward Hervey MacDonald
(1873 was born in Durham, England, and 1932 died in Toronto) J.E.H (Jim) MacDonald is the oldest member of the Seven-member School of Painting and a poet. Although he was born in England, his father's family has lived in Canada since the late 8th century. The MacDonald family moved back to Toronto on 1887. 1890, MacDonald was an apprentice in a lithography company in Toronto. From 1895, he began to work in Grip company and became a famous designer, deeply influenced by william morris and Walter Crater. He worships Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Solo (he named his only son Solo), Waldo Whitman and lev tolstoy. 1903 MacDonald moved to London to work in Carlton Studio, a famous design company founded by former employees of Grip. 1907, MacDonald moved back to Canada and became the chief designer of Grip company. In the second year (1908), he began to show his landscape works about logging and camping, as well as the high park in the west of Toronto not far from his home. 19 12, he painted in George Bay for the first time. From 19 18 to 1920, he went to Algoma with his painting friends, but he was still attached to the rural scenery in southern Ontario. This is a topic of interest to predecessors.
MacDonald played a key role in this artistic movement. He is a public figure of this new school of painting, and his works are the focus of daily criticism and attack. He defended himself and other artists and responded. 19 17 during his recovery from heart disease, he wrote many poems and articles, which clearly expressed his vision of art and his keen sense of social justice.
From 192 1 to 1929, MacDonald has been teaching in the Department of Decoration and Commercial Design of Ontario Art College. Over the years, he has been occupied by work, family responsibilities, decorating buildings, making books and illustrations, and finally became terminally ill. Because he has little free time, he only travels in a short time. 1922, he prepared illustrations for the work "The Story of the Land of Evangel Lynn" by Grace mcleod Rogers, and he went to Nova Scotia (Toronto McLelland &; Stewart company, 1923 catalog 54). 1924, he got a pass from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, allowing him to paint in the Canadian Rocky Mountains every summer for the next six years. He was never a strong man, but overwork made him die young in 19321February.
VII. Thomas john thomson Thomas john thomson
(Born in Clairmont, Ontario, 1877, died in Kanu Lake, Ontario, 19 17) Thomson was born in a Scottish family and grew up on a farm near Irving Sander in George Bay. 190 1 came to Seattle, Washington with my brothers and worked in a photographic plate-making company. He moved to Toronto in 1905 and joined Grip printing company in 1908. 19 10 or so, he started painting near Toronto with other employees of Grip company. 19 12 He went to Algonjin Park to paint for the first time. Thomson has no formal artistic training. He first learned painting from his colleagues McDonald and Jackson, and later from Lawrence Harris. It was he who introduced Algonquin Park to artists, and the artist cooperation movement developed in this park in 19 14. Thomson later became a rapidly developing artist, and his understanding of the northern region and his focus on his works were admired by his peers in the art world.
19 13 stopped commercial painting in the early days and worked as a tour guide or a forest fire fighter in the summer. Painting near Toronto from early winter to early spring. Then go to Algonkin Park. 1965438+In July 2007, before his 40th birthday, he drowned in Kanu Lake. Hearing the bad news, Lismer wrote from Halifax: He (Thomson) is the most simple and straightforward person I know. ..... he doesn't have preconceived ideas like us and others. He never handles canvases like others. What he created was completely divorced from his experience, and he completely integrated himself into his works. Jackson wrote in England: I owe him a debt of gratitude, because his foresight has brought me a new world, this northern country and more realistic artists.
Later, some painters joined in.