The Motif in Canadian Landscape Painting:From the Topographical to the Decorative

作     者：Lloyd James Bennett 

作者机构：Thompson Rivers UniversityKamloopsCanada 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第8卷第7期

页      码：1028-1038页

摘      要：In Early 20th century,Canadian landscape painting had its roots in European art,especially in impressionism and subsequent *** Claude Monet took to working in a series to capture changing light,he sought to simplify his subject;the painter would focus on a motif:a passage of river,a tree,or a building *** editing out of landscape information led to a more abstract work where one might focus on the color or brushwork in the *** method led to a release from the task of measuring for accuracy for the *** became sensory and not imitative where one was free to enjoy pure painting that spoke directly to a sensation or a delight in an unsuspected *** the end of the 19th century,Art Nouveau designs were printed in international journals,like The Studio and were studied in commercial design shops,like Grip Ltd.,*** nucleus of Canada’s leading painting group―the Group of Seven,was formed out of commercial art and,to some extent,designs one could see reproduced in *** Thomson took these motifs;these abstracted forms and envisioned them in the landscape of Ontario through his plein air *** Harris stylized trees and mountain forms into abstractions of pure delight and *** set his hills in the landscapes of rural Quebec where repeating rhythms trumped topography *** paper will highlight these Canadian painters as they introduced the motif that moved landscape painting to decoration of the most satisfying kind.

主 题 词：landscape painting Canada motif plein air 

学科分类：05[文学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2018.07.006

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