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Dejardin’s swan song as he retires from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, is the current Tom Thomson: North Star exhibition aimed at dusting off the cultural clichés that have come to surround the artist ....
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The Group of Seven Started: 1911 Beginnings and Developments In the early years of the twentieth century Canadian art was tied to the academic tradition imported into the country by European emigres. Despite the fact that its spectacular wilderness was central to the country s sense of self identity, the Canadian wilderness was considered unpaintable and collectors expressed little interest in domestic landscape painting. Nor was there much appetite for European modernism amongst the public and collectors who tended to view the avant-garde with scorn. Thus, between 1911 and 1913 a group of painters forged a tight friendship born out of a shared dissatisfaction with the malaise that had gripped the Canadian art scene. ....