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Day 1: Jean Paul Lemieux (1904–1990), Quebec painter and illustrator. Lots of vast, atmospheric landscapes, and haunting portraits in which inner worlds and outer worlds seem to come together.
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Day 2: Joan Eardley (1921-1963), British, Scottish artist. Exquisite lines, deliciously moody but colourful palettes. Her pastels of Scottish tenement children are particularly moving.
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Day 3: Christie Belcourt, a Métis visual artist and activist in Canada whose magnificent mural-sized acrylic paintings resemble the beadwork of her ancestors and community.
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He's not everyone's cup of tea, but Austrian Impressionist painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), a master of expressive lines and contours, has always been a favourite of mine, primarily because of those lines and the moody palette that accompanies them. I especially love his land and cityscapes.
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Some take issue with Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky’s work because it aestheticizes the climate crisis, but I think the visual tension between beauty and violence compels viewers like me to slow down and take the time to really see the scars we've made, and to contemplate the environmental crisis and its many injustices.
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Day 5: My next pick is Iraqi/Scottish painter Nael Hanna (b.1959). I love his expressive, almost-abstract style, gorgeous colour, dynamic brush work and textures. *Sigh* I want to go back to Scotland!!!
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Day 6: Alberto Burri (1915-1995), an Italian abstract artist who blurred the boundaries between painting and sculpture using everyday materials such as burlap, plaster, wood, steel, and charred plastic. Also, check out his Grande Cretto, a sprawling concrete landscape created to memorialize to the town of Gibellina in Sicily, which was flattened by an earthquake in 1968. 🖤
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Day 7: Archibald Dunbar McIntosh (1936-2024) for his colourful, whimsical, abstracted translations of Scottish landscapes to canvas.
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Oh, I'm so glad! 🖤