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NEW VIRTUAL SERIES! Join Danielle Siemens, Curatorial Associate & Collections Manager at your AGA, for a virtual exploration of ‘100 Years: The Group of Seven and Other Voices’ presented by Capital Power. In this four-part series, Danielle will be taking a look at a few of the ‘other voices’ in the exhibition—colleagues, mentors and students of the Group of Seven, or artists who worked entirely independent of their influence. Watch here for part one.
‘100 Years: The Group of Seven and Other Voices’ is organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, and curated by Danielle Siemens. Presented by Capital Powered Art, an exhibition series sponsored by Capital Power Corporation.NEW VIRTUAL SERIES! Join Danielle Siemens, Curatorial Associate & Collections Manager at your AGA, for a virtual exploration of ‘100 Years: The Group of Seven and Other Voices’ presented by Capital Power. In this four-part series, Danielle will be taking a look at a few of the ‘other voices’ in the exhibition—colleagues, mentors and students …
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hi
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my name is danielle and i’m the
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collections manager and curatorial
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associate here at the art gallery of
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alberta
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today i’ll be walking us through some of
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the works in our current exhibition
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100 years the group of seven and other
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voices
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2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the
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official formation of the group of seven
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with their first exhibition in may 1920
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in toronto
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this exhibition commemorates this
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anniversary by
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charting the development of the group of
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seven from their early formation in the
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1910s
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to their prominence in the 20s and the
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decades following
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now the group of seven came together
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with an interest in developing
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a distinctly canadian art something that
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expressed this nation
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and the people and they really saw this
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as rooted in the canadian landscape or
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the wilderness
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they’re also quite important to the
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history or the formation of modernism in
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canada
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they actively rejected tradition and the
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academic art
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establishment and sought to infuse their
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landscape paintings
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with some modernist styles
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now they’ve really become synonymous
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with what we think of
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as canadian historical art however
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they’re really only one facet of what
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was happening
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so this exhibition includes several
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other artists or other voices
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people who are working at roughly the
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same time as the group
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and who were their mentors colleagues or
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students
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or who worked entirely independent of
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their influence altogether
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importantly this portion of the
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exhibition includes several women
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artists
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and people working in western canada
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specifically alberta
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as we know the group of seven were only
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men and they were primarily based in
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toronto
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although they did travel across the
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country
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so i will be walking us through some of
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the works in this portion of the
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exhibition
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some of the artists here are quite
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famous today such as emily carr
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while others have been largely
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overshadowed by the group’s prominence
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throughout the 20th century
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