CCCA Canadian Art Database

Ending Year: 1992

Greg Curnoe

First Name: Greg

Last Name: Curnoe

Biography (English): Greg Curnoe was a Canadian painter known for his role in the Canadian art movement labeled London Regionalism, which, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important centre for artistic production in Canada. While his oeuvre chronicled his daily experience in a variety of media, it was grounded in twentieth-century art movements, especially Dada, with its emphasis on nihilism and anarchism, Canadian politics, and popular culture. He is remembered for brightly coloured works that often incorporate text to support his strong Canadian patriotism, sometimes expressed as anti-Americanism, as well as his activism in support of Canadian artists. He found meaning in popular culture and his own cultural roots that addressed the disillusion he felt with established culture after leaving art school. He founded Region magazine in 1961 and Region Gallery in 1962. He co-founded the Canadian noise band the Nihilist Spasm Band in 1965. In 1968, Jack Chambers with the aid of Kim Ondaatje, Tony Urquhart, Curnoe and John Boyle, founded Canadian Artists' Representation to serve as a union for artists in Canada. Curnoe co-founded the Forest City Gallery, an artist-run centre, in 1973. He represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1976 and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1981, which subsequently toured across Canada.

Biography (French): Greg Curnoe était un peintre canadien connu pour son rôle dans le mouvement artistique canadien appelé London Regionalism, qui, à partir des années 1960, a fait de London, en Ontario, un centre important de production artistique au Canada. Même si son œuvre relatait son expérience quotidienne dans une variété de médias, elle était ancrée dans les mouvements artistiques du XXe siècle, en particulier Dada, qui mettait l'accent sur le nihilisme et l'anarchisme, la politique canadienne et la culture populaire. On se souvient de lui pour ses œuvres aux couleurs vives qui incorporent souvent du texte pour soutenir son fort patriotisme canadien, parfois exprimé sous forme d'antiaméricanisme, ainsi que pour son activisme en faveur des artistes canadiens. Il a trouvé un sens à la culture populaire et à ses propres racines culturelles, qui répondaient à la désillusion qu'il ressentait à l'égard de la culture établie après avoir quitté l'école d'art. Il a fondé le magazine Region en 1961 et la Region Gallery en 1962. Il a cofondé le groupe noise canadien Nihilist Spasm Band en 1965. En 1968, Jack Chambers, avec l'aide de Kim Ondaatje, Tony Urquhart, Curnoe et John Boyle, fonde la Représentation des artistes canadiens pour servir de syndicat pour les artistes du Canada. Curnoe a cofondé la Forest City Gallery, un centre d'artistes, en 1973. Il a représenté le Canada à la Biennale de Venise en 1976 et a fait l'objet d'une exposition rétrospective au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal en 1981, qui a ensuite fait une tournée à travers le Canada. .

Birth Year: 1936

Medium: painting printmaking

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ᐳᓗ ᐳᓚ Pudlo Pudlat

First Name: ᐳᓗ ᐳᓚ Pudlo

Last Name: Pudlat

Biography (English): Pudlo Pudlat was a Canadian Inuk artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums. At his death in 1992, Pudlat left a body of work that included more than 4000 drawings and 200 prints. Pudlat began drawing in the early 1960s after he abandoned the semi-nomadic way of life and settled in ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset]. He experienced firsthand the radical transformation of life in the Arctic that occurred in the 20th Century and reached its peak in the 1950s. In the late 1950s, when he was already in his 40s, he moved to Kiaktuuq near ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait to recover from a bout of tuberculosis. It was there he met Inuit art pioneer James Archibald Houston and began his career as an artist. Pudlat spent 33 years creating art. He began by carving sculpture, but he found carving difficult because of an arm injury, so he switched to drawing around 1959 or 1960. Initially encouraged by James Houston and then by Terry Ryan of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now known as the Kinngait Co-operative), he embraced drawing and later printmaking and painting as these media were introduced in the north. Pudlat occasionally traveled south and to other parts of the Arctic for medical treatment. The objects he encountered his travels, especially airplanes, are prominent in his subject matter. In 1972 one of Pudlat's prints was selected for reproduction on a UNICEF greeting card. Pudlat travelled to Ottawa to attend the opening of an exhibition of the works. He remembered it as the first work for which he was invited south and accorded public recognition.

Biography (French): Palluq Pullat Palluq inuuliqtuminiq Villuali 1915, Ilupirulimmi, Ammarjuat saniani ungasinniqaqsuni 350 kilumiita mitsaani kanannangani Kinngait, Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut. Qaujimajaujjutilik titiqtugarnik 4500-nik (titiqtugaliarisimajut, titiqtugait, amiaqsimajullu) sanasimajangit arraaguit 33 iluani. Pigiarutiqaqpallialauqsimajuugaluaq sanannguanirmik kisiani quviagilauqsimanngimmauk, utirami Kiaktuumut, titiqtugaqattapallialilauqsimajuq 1958 uvvalu 1960. Tiliuqtaugianngalauqsimatsuni James Houston-mut ammalu Terry Ryan-mut, ilitaqsisitsautigilauqsimajuq titiqtugarnirmik, ammalu kinguningagut titiqtugaliurnirmik amiarinirmillu, niruaqtariliqsugu. Palluq kingulliqpaami titiqtugangit takutsaujut arraagutamaaqsiutini titiqtugarni 1993-mi. Inuujunniilauqtuq Tiisippiri 28, 1992

Website Link: https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/Pudlo-Pudlat

Community Detail: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl

Birth Year: 1916

Medium: drawing printmaking

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