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The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Post Modernism: A Brief Analysis continued designed to confront, offend or attack notions held by many of the people who view it, conceptual art is regarded with particular controversy. A third trend in Postmodern Art is termed lowbrow art. Lowbrow art is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other California subcultures. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. Lowbrow art highlights a central theme in postmodernism in that the distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art are no longer recognized. Another trend in art which has been associated with the term postmodern is the use of a number of different media together. One of the most common forms of ‘multi-media art’ is the use of video art. Finally, the re-emergence of an allegorical impulse is characteristic of postmodern art. This impulse is linked to appropriation in art which debunks modernist notions of artistic genius and originality and is more ambivalent and contradictory than modern art. Jason Carter The Prairie Dogs on the Open Road, 2012 Acrylic on canvas Collection of the artist Characteristics inherent to Postmodern Art are evidenced in all of the paintings by Jason Carter in the exhibition Urban Animals. Carter’s emphasis on representation, simplification of forms, the introduction of narrative, the elevation of ‘low’ art forms (illustration and comic book elements), and the mix of modernist and pop art concerns all mark his work as going in a different direction than either strict modernism or Pop Art. Also central to some of the paintings in the exhibiiton are the elements of irony and humor. These elements are expressed most clearly in the paintings The Prairie Dogs on the Open Road and The Man Hole. AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program Animals in Art and Art Styles: The Woodland Style While First Nations peoples have been creating visual imagery for millennia, it was not until the 1960s that their imagery was recognized by the Canadian Art establishment as anything more than cultural artifacts or records. The first First Nations artist to achieve any recognition in Canada was Norval Morrisseau who developed what has come to be termed the Woodland School of art. In 1973 Morrisseau joined artists Alex Janvier, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, Eddy Cobiness and Joe Sanchez, to form a group which came to be called the ‘Indian Group of Seven’ whose mission was to spread the word about Native woodland art. This group has had a tremendous influence on the First Nations artists who have followed them. Jason Carter Habitat for Humanity, 2012 Acrylic on canvas Collection of the artist Morrisseau’s influence is evident in the paintings of Jason Carter in the exhibition Urban Animals. Utilising bright, flat colours outlined by heavy dark lines, hall-marks of the Woodland style as developed by Morrisseau, Carter creates strong images which speak to the importance of animals both to First Nations peoples and to humanity as a whole. Norval Morrisseau Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) was one of Canada’s foremost aboriginal artists and founder of the Woodland Style of painting. Born near Thunder Bay, Ontario, on the Sand Point Reserve, Morrisseau was an Ojibwa shaman and self-taught artist who painted for more than 50 years, gaining an International reputation as one of Canada’s original master artists. Morrisseau was brought up by both of his maternal grandparents. His grandfather was a shaman who schooled him in the traditional ways of his culture while his grandmother, a Catholic, made sure he was familiar with Christian beliefs. According to accounts, it was the conflict between the two cultures that influenced Morrisseau’s outlook and became his art. Morrisseau was known for taking traditional icons expressed in his native culture in rock art and birch bark scrolls and translating these images in the Western media of easel painting and printmaking. He was also fascinated with modern European painting, which he was exposed to by his first Anglo-Canadian patrons in 1959. AFA Travelling Exhibition Program, Edmonton, AB. Ph: 780.428.3830 Fax: 780.421.0479 youraga.ca
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