Master's (Art) Gallery field study - December 18th
While we were at Master's Art Gallery, we did a math challenge where we had to buy art but there was a budget of no more than $30,000. No, we did not actually buy it! The art had prices from $1 500 to $21 000. Also, some of the art was so expensive that it didn't have price tags. One by Tom Thompson cost about half a million!
While we were there the gallery owner Ryan Green told us about the Group of Seven and a couple of other artists who were inspired by them. Lawren Harris was doing realistic drawings and then went into making nature with shapes, then went into geometrics and back to realism. There was an artist, Emily Carr, who had a monkey named Wow. She moved from doing first nations (indigenous) villages and started doing forests. She stopped for a period of time because people weren't encouraging.
Abstract art is a kind of art where it wants you to see your own thing. It was considered NOT art for a while, but a bunch of abstract artists said they were just painting something on a canvas and that's the same as what was considered art then.
Learning about the artists was one of the best things. It was such so awesome to just look at the art. One of the most amazing pieces was a sculpture made of styrofoam of Vincent Van Gogh - his eyes followed you wherever you went because he was a cut-out into the styrofoam! Some of the other art we really liked was "The Winding Canals", a portrait of the streets of Venice in pastel (I believe). Another one was "Untitled", a painting by Janet Mitchell with humans and llamas and weird cows.
Written by Lewis and Clayton
While we were there the gallery owner Ryan Green told us about the Group of Seven and a couple of other artists who were inspired by them. Lawren Harris was doing realistic drawings and then went into making nature with shapes, then went into geometrics and back to realism. There was an artist, Emily Carr, who had a monkey named Wow. She moved from doing first nations (indigenous) villages and started doing forests. She stopped for a period of time because people weren't encouraging.
Abstract art is a kind of art where it wants you to see your own thing. It was considered NOT art for a while, but a bunch of abstract artists said they were just painting something on a canvas and that's the same as what was considered art then.
Learning about the artists was one of the best things. It was such so awesome to just look at the art. One of the most amazing pieces was a sculpture made of styrofoam of Vincent Van Gogh - his eyes followed you wherever you went because he was a cut-out into the styrofoam! Some of the other art we really liked was "The Winding Canals", a portrait of the streets of Venice in pastel (I believe). Another one was "Untitled", a painting by Janet Mitchell with humans and llamas and weird cows.
Written by Lewis and Clayton
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