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Chapter 1: What is the Group of Seven?
So before they got together as a group, again, which was 1920. Mm-hmm. They took a pretty formidable trip in May of 1912 when Thompson and another staff member at the grip named Harry B. Jackson took this train from Toronto to the Algonquin Provincial Park or to Algonquin Provincial Park. There's no D there. And they just started sketching.
Again, like you said, at the time, you know, you had to be pretty adventurous to start venturing into those wild climbs. It was rough and rugged territory. So certainly there probably were not a lot of artists doing that. I mean, there were... There have always been Canadian men and women who were like, yeah, I'm very comfortable out there and it doesn't scare me.
But I think artists to be going out there was a pretty radical thing.
Yeah, for sure. And yeah, these guys were, they were rebels in their time. You just got to kind of remember that. Even though retrospectively now you're like, what's the big deal? But yeah, at the time, this is all very new. It was very big. And also, as we'll see, they were basically making like in-your-face costumes.
style of art that just was not the taste of Canada at the time yeah they spent a lot of time in that park and specifically Thompson at a certain point he was spending you know eight months out of the year there he left in the winter finally because it was it was pretty rough and But he really, really loved Algonquin Provincial Park.
And I think they even like the media initially started calling them the Algonquin School before they settled on a name. And some really beautiful paintings came out of that pre 1920 formation.
Yeah. The Jack Pine is a very, very famous painting in Canada. I love it. That was by Tom Thompson, I think from 1916. It's basically when he started it. But you can really clearly see the Art Nouveau influence that he developed as a commercial graphic designer.
Yeah.
Another one is A.Y. Jackson's The Red Maple. I like A.Y. Jackson's work, but I don't like The Red Maple. But it's about equally famous as The Jack Pine in Canada.
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Chapter 4: How did the Group of Seven shape Canadian art?
Hans and Franz.
Pretty cool. Yeah, exactly.
Maybe we should take another break. Yes. And we'll be back with more art.
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