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http://philipkochpaintings.blogspot.com/2013/01/north-to-lawren-harris-country.html
Philip Koch muses on the paintings of Lawren Harris.
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http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2012/01/26/group_of_seven/
Sarah Milroy reviews the recent exhibition Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
Milroy writes that "Ross King [recently] debunked the popularly held Canadian view of these artists as pioneer woodsmen-savants, revealing instead their ties to the painterly traditions of Britain, France and Holland. This well-timed exhibition thus allowed us the opportunity to reconsider their accomplishments in light of this argument, demonstrating how their passionate love of the land was married to a painterly sophistication honed in dialogue with inherited artistic traditions."
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http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/painting-canada-tom-thomson-and-the-group-of-seven
Emma Enderby reviews the exhibition Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London through January 8, 2012.
Enderby writes: "United by a common aim to challenge accepted authority, the modus operandi of Thomson and the group was to create a visual language and artistic identity to express the Canadian landscape, breaking all previous moulds... However, we also gauge from the work how these artists were interested in exploring and grappling with the desire for a new artistic identity through experimentation with style, such as (post) impressionism and fauvism."
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http://philipkochpaintings.blogspot.com/2010/12/heading-north-to-celebrate-winter.html
Painter Philip Koch writes about Lawren Harris "a Canadian landscape painter active in the earlier years of the 20th century... a northern equivalent of the American regionalist painters Charles Burchfield and Grant Wood." Koch admires, among other things, the way Harris "can combine the most muscular massive shapes ... with the most delicate and lace like pattern."
