May. 25, 2013 at 4:35pm with 2 notes
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Arthur Lismer, Tree Stump, B.C. Forest, 1951 ~ “Everything was growing, growing, growing – everything had a song… There – a contrast in the depth of cedar grove, or pine and spruce bush – here – a merciless tangle of fallen trees and age-long struggle with the elements… Overhead, the heavy interlacing branches permit but little light to penetrate. Only here and there a shaft of light has caught the top of a rotting stump, and burns like a sacrificial fire in some huge primeval temple.”

Arthur Lismer, Tree Stump, B.C. Forest, 1951

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“Everything was growing, growing, growing – everything had a song… There – a contrast in the depth of cedar grove, or pine and spruce bush – here – a merciless tangle of fallen trees and age-long struggle with the elements… Overhead, the heavy interlacing branches permit but little light to penetrate. Only here and there a shaft of light has caught the top of a rotting stump, and burns like a sacrificial fire in some huge primeval temple.”

(Source: waddingtons.ca)

2:31pm
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John S. Bannister, Mother and Child, c.2012  

John S. Bannister, Mother and Child, c.2012

 

(Source: waddingtons.ca)

May. 22, 2013 at 4:16pm with 12,431 notes
Reblogged from cavetocanvas
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.
— Brian Eno (via cavetocanvas)

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May. 21, 2013 at 5:20pm with 4 notes
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Ohotaq Mikkigak 

Plunge, 2010

Yellow Bear, 2010

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Mikkigak is a printmaker from Cape Dorset.

“I enjoy doing colourful drawings, of people, animals, birds and especially the landscape. I used to enjoy hunting on the land, so that’s what I draw.”

(Source: dorsetfinearts.com)

4:26pm with 297 notes
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moderndayndnprincess: Fringe Rebecca Belmore (Anishnaabe) Rebecca Belmore often uses the body to address violence against First Nations people, especially women. The woman in Fringe assumes the same reclining pose as the beautiful odalisques depicted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European artists, but bears an ugly slash from shoulder to hip. The thin rivulets of blood that run from the gash are composed of small red beads, a detail that evokes both Belmore’s Anishinabe heritage and the trauma inflicted on indigenous peoples. Despite the graveness of the woman’s injury, Belmore’s Fringe is also about healing. The wound is not fatal; she has the strength to recover. But the scar will never disappear. I love Rebecca Belmore.

moderndayndnprincess:

Fringe

Rebecca Belmore (Anishnaabe)

Rebecca Belmore often uses the body to address violence against First Nations people, especially women. The woman in Fringe assumes the same reclining pose as the beautiful odalisques depicted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century European artists, but bears an ugly slash from shoulder to hip. The thin rivulets of blood that run from the gash are composed of small red beads, a detail that evokes both Belmore’s Anishinabe heritage and the trauma inflicted on indigenous peoples. Despite the graveness of the woman’s injury, Belmore’s Fringe is also about healing. The wound is not fatal; she has the strength to recover. But the scar will never disappear.

I love Rebecca Belmore.

2:54pm with 1 note
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Artist Ai Weiwei announced as part of lineup for Toronto's eighth annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Feeling pretty jealous of Torontonians right now, Ai Weiwei is the best.

May. 20, 2013 at 9:50pm with 15 notes
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Tom Thomson, Sketch for Morning Cloud, 1913

Tom Thomson, Sketch for Morning Cloud, 1913

9:34pm with 7 notes
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Tom Thomson, White Caps, Smoke Lake, 1913

Tom Thomson, White Caps, Smoke Lake, 1913

(Source: wag.ca)

9:21pm with 8 notes
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Tom Thomson, Lumber Camp, Night, 1916

Tom Thomson, Lumber Camp, Night, 1916

(Source: gallery.ca)

9:12pm
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Tom Thomson, After A Day in Tacoma, Self-Portrait, June 30, 1902

Tom Thomson, After A Day in Tacoma, Self-Portrait, June 30, 1902