Canadian visual arts and cultural creators in Discover Canada
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Discover Canada names the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, Les Automatistes and Kenojuak Ashevak among important Canadian visual-arts examples. It presents cultural achievement in both English and French and across regions and communities.
Scope & context
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More context
The Group of Seven, founded in 1920, is associated with Canadian landscape painting. Emily Carr is linked with the forests and Indigenous cultural settings of the West Coast. Les Automatistes are associated with modern abstraction in Quebec; the guide names Jean-Paul Riopelle. Kenojuak Ashevak is associated with modern Inuit art.
The guide also names writers such as Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, Joy Kogawa and Michael Ondaatje. These names illustrate a diverse cultural field; an award date in a separate biography should not be mistaken for the only fact that matters about an artist.
Additional guide examples include writers Louis Hémon, Émile Nelligan, Charles G. D. Roberts, Mordecai Richler and Rohinton Mistry; musicians Ernest MacMillan and Healey Willan; and filmmakers Denys Arcand, Norman Jewison and Atom Egoyan. Cirque du Soleil illustrates the performing arts. These are examples named in the guide, not a complete cultural canon.
Sources behind this record
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Modern Canada; sections and tables identified in the research record