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Obit: Alan King was an editorial cartoonist, self-taught artist, classical pianist


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The Ottawa Citizen’s longtime editorial cartoonist Alan King once described his craft as the “scruffy offspring of art and journalism.”
King was a master of that unruly child, both entertaining and maddening readers during his 17 years as lead cartoonist. His richly illustrated ink drawings regularly skewered politicians, pomposity and hypocrisy.
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“Editorial cartoons,” he once wrote, “speak louder, more sharply, and with less forethought than most forms of newspaper commentary: It is their glaring defect and great advantage.” ....

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The Group of Seven - Concepts & Styles


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. ....

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