Post 219 -by Gautam Shah
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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture
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Florence Helena McGillivray (1864 -1938) was a Canadian artist. After her studies, she travelled extensively in search of new landscapes. She travelled across Canada, the West Indies, France, Europe, North and South America. She was a prolific painter and art educator, who influenced early 20th C Canadian modernists art movement. She was associated with the Group of Seven artists.
McGillivray stressed ‘abstract qualities of line, colour, and form’ through mass of colours applied with a palette knife. The colour and texture, reflect the Post-Impressionist and Fauvist movements, which she had encountered in Europe. She delineated her landscape forms with strong dark out-lines. She painted the organic elements and painted them with vivid colours. Her handling of the reality was not through shadows or perceptive distances but through colour and little visual aberration.
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