Quotation
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.
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ResearchLogos Group of Seven Art Gallery
Powerpoint: The Road to Expressionism
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Biographical
Lawren Harris met the other artists who were to form the Group of Seven through the Arts and Letters Club. He had been a founding member of the Club and had a background very different to the other members of the Group. Harris was born in Brantford, Ontario and was an heir to the Massey-Harris fortunes, which supplied him with an independent income. A wealthy, conservative and religious upbringing in Toronto provided him with many privileged experiences. His education included St. Andrew's College at the University of Toronto. At age nineteen, he travelled to Europe to study art in Germany for three years. In 1908, he toured through the near East with a writer and had the illustrations he made there published in Harper's Bazaar.
Harris was an enthusiast and organizer. The idea of the Studio Building, where all Group members could work, originated with Harris, who paid three quarters of the cost, while Dr. McCallum contributed the rest. After his discharge from the army, where he taught musketry at Camp Borden, Harris persuaded the Algoma Central Railway to lend him a boxcar and so began the first trips to Algoma. Harris invited artist friends - all expenses paid - and outfitted the boxcar as a studio on wheels with bunks, tables, chairs, a stove, shelves, a canoe and a 3-wheel jigger for short runs up and down the tracks. The last Algoma trip was in 1921. At this time, Harris and Jackson travelled to the North Shore of Lake Superior. Harris became widely known for paintings of this area. Here, the starkness and bareness of the landscape corresponded with the direction in which his paintings were moving.Lawren Harris was convinced that art must express spiritual values as well as portraying the visible world. To him, the role of the artist and the function of art was to reveal the divine forces in nature. He gradually moved toward greater abstraction and thus more complete expression of his philosophical views. Harris was doing much more than trying to paint the northland as he saw it. His goal was to incorporate his spiritual feeling for the landscape into his work. After 1924, he no longer dated or signed his works because he did not want them to be tied to a specific artist or place. While Lawren Harris continued to explore new ideas, he also continued to be a driving force behind the Group of Seven. Harris was married to the accomplished artist Bess Housser. [Adapted from Canadian Government Group of Seven Web Site]
Logos Works by Lawren S. Harris
Art Gallery: A Side Street (1920)
Art Gallery: Autumn (1920)
Art Gallery: Black Court (1921)
Art Gallery: Dr. Salem Bland (1925)
Art Gallery: First Snow (1923)
Art Gallery: From the North Shore (c. 1927)
Art Gallery: Grey Day in Town (1923)
Art Gallery: Icebergs (1930)
Art Gallery: In the Ward (1920)
Art Gallery: Isolation Peak (1930)
Art Gallery: January Thaw (1921)
Art Gallery: Maligne Lake 1924)
Art Gallery: Miners' Houses (1925)
Art Gallery: Morning Light (c. 1927)
Art Gallery: Mount Lefroy (1930)
Art Gallery: Mountains and Lake (1929)
Art Gallery: Northern Lake II (c. 1926)
Art Gallery: Ontario Hill Town (1926)
Art Gallery: Shacks (1919)
Art Gallery: Spring on the Oxtongue (1924)
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