A few days ago, curator Sarah Milroy (Sarah Milroy) curated the exhibition "Uninvited Guests: Modern Moments of Canadian Women Artists" at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, the exhibition focuses on Canadian women artists from the 1920s to the 1940s. More than 200 works by women practitioners in various fields such as painting, sculpture, photography, crafts, architecture, film, etc., show the breadth and diversity of women's creations in the context of times full of great changes.

Canada, a territorial country in North America, is rarely mentioned in the field of culture and art in the global perspective. The development of its contemporary art can be traced back to the 16th century, when Canada was invaded by British and French colonists, became a British colony in 1763, and did not become independent until 1926. In the past hundred years, a large number of immigrants came to this land, bringing European art style. In 1880, before the establishment of the Royal Canadian Academy of Fine Arts, the artists here rarely received professional training, and their artistic development has been lagging behind, and is mainly influenced by the British and French styles. After the establishment of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the pursuit of national art gradually began.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Canada had its own art groups and art schools, of which the "Seven Artists School" was the most important school of painting in Canada in the 20th century. In the context of lack of national cultural identity, the "Seven Artists School" exclaimed that "art must faithfully express the spirit of national growth", and consciously integrated modern art and national consciousness, which had a profound impact on the development of art in Canada Impact. 2020 marks the centenary of the first exhibition of the "Seven Artists". In order to commemorate the pioneers of Canadian art, McMiguel Canadian Art Collection Gallery held the "Seven Artists" 100th Anniversary Exhibition, and Canada Post launched the "Seven Artists" 100th Anniversary Exhibition. The centennial stamp of the "School of Seven Paintings" exhibition. And Sarah Milroy, the curator behind the 100-year-old exhibition, noticed that in the same context in which the "Seven Schools" established Canadian modern art, there are also a group of female artists who are also exploring Canadian modern art. Art, creating art with local sensibilities and unique styles. They have not become the object of mainstream attention, but their creations are of great discussion significance. They recorded the social life, urban development, industrial innovation and culture at that time with their own eyes. fusion. Hence, Uninvited Guests: A Modern Moment of Canadian Women Artists, which is on display, tells the story of this underappreciated group of female artists.

The theme of nature and landscape is an important part of Canadian modern art, and the birth of local consciousness first comes from the feeling of this vast land. There are also landscape works in this exhibition, but the artists' observations seem to be more inclined to the thinking of the relationship between man and nature. Emily Carr is known for her powerful landscape paintings. She is influenced by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. Although it is a landscape work, Karl's agile writing is full of humanistic care for the West Coast of North America. She depicts aboriginal culture and records the life scenes of villages, and the pictures are full of understanding of natural forces. In the collision between man and nature, Karl conveyed his concern for environmental protection; the works of Yvonne McKague Housser, one of the founding members of the Canadian Painters Organization, showed human civilization in a more in-depth manner The invasion of nature is full of modern buildings, especially the abandoned mines and quarries, in her paintings, which are between abstraction and expression. These residual traces have become another landscape.

Compared with the mainstream art pioneers in the early 20th century who pursued Canadian national art with landscape painting as the main theme, the female artists in the "Uninvited Guests" exhibition showed their different perspectives through portraiture. Regina Seiden Goldberg's "Family Dinner" paints a family's daily life with brisk brushstrokes, with sombre tones echoing the serene atmosphere; Anne in "The Beaver Hall Group" Anne Savage, in "On the Spinning Wheel", outlines a female figure with a simple color block, and the blurred expression appears thoughtful under the rendering of harmonious tones; Prudence Hay Prudence Heward's strong female image makes her art unique and different from the current popular style. Hayward's solemn and imaginative style combined with the Canadian context makes the picture full of narrative; while Lily Heward's painting is full of narrative. The characters of Lilias Torrance Newton are delicate and tender. The portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, the woman in a black dress, and Anna are neatly portrayed, and the subtle expressions bring indescribable expressions to the characters.

In the first half of the 20th century, under the collision and interweaving of multiple cultures, Canada experienced the realization of self-identity and national consciousness. Based on these foundations, the voice for national construction has grown, and it has also manifested in art, and it is more profoundly reflected in this group of female artists, who face urban, social and political themes. The avant-garde photographer Margaret Watkins was an explorer and practitioner of "still life photography". She used the lens of New Glasgow to show a highly modernist aesthetic form, and also recorded this maritime the development of the port; Paraskeva Clark’s post-Impressionist and Cubist paintings show her nostalgia for her home country and her call for social construction; one of the founding members of the Canadian Society of Sculptors. Elizabeth Wyn Wood, a modern sculpture artist, shows strong spiritual power. Her concise and formal shapes and lines make her works full of geometrical beauty, soft and natural, delicate yet delicate. A sonorous and powerful expression of home and country feelings.

"Canadian Dictionary" summed up three development trends for its modern art: first, it has an increasingly local regionality, and at the same time, under the influence of new immigrants, both regionality and diversity; second, it has an increasingly close relationship with world art; third. the more the government pays attention to it, the higher the people's artistic accomplishment. Combining this "uninvited guest" with another perspective of Canadian modern art, we can see that these female artists also coincide with the zeitgeist of the development of modern art. From this, we can see the concern for local consciousness and the call for social construction, home The expression of national feelings, under the multiple expressions, is the emotional belonging that coexists in this land of Canada. From the aspect of artistic expression and style, we can also see the narrowing of the distance with the current mainstream Western art. In the past few decades, Canadian modern art, from pioneers to these silently recorded "uninvited guests", has contributed to the construction of Canadian art and culture. They are equally important.

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