Post 205 -by Gautam Shah
SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
Efa Prudence Heward was Montreal born (1986-1947) painter of human subjects but also excelled in landscapes and still-life. She preferred the term ‘figure art to portraits. She was known for her sensitive and bold depictions of the women figures, with an eye to issues of class, gender, and race. Most of her figure paintings are of women, ‘who often return the viewer’s gaze, and who are realistically rendered rather being idealized’
Her, women’s figures are always set in the background of diffused landscapes. Her independent landscapes were in impressionists style. She was known for ‘brilliant acid colours, sculptural treatment, and intense expression through colour contrasts’. Heward's works show considerable consistency of quality and style.
Heward ’s. work was influenced by schools of European modernism, and she used that as a formality of just being with it. The European styles provided her ‘with a dynamic visual vocabulary’. Heward became one of the most innovative artists of Canada of early 20th C.
She was part of a Montreal-based Beaver Hall Group (1920–21), an artistic collective comprised primarily, though not exclusively, of professional female artists (like André Biéler, Emily Coonan, Robert Pilot, Anne Savage, Albert Robinson, Lilas Torrance Newton and others). Heward was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and the Contemporary Arts Society of Montreal, as well as a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
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