Canadian and Indigenous Art

Question 1

True or False? There were many exhibitions of Canadian Art by 1910.

Answer 1

FALSE

Question 2

True or False? A.Y. Jackson kept returning to the quanit villages in Québec to do his painting.

Answer 2

TRUE

Question 3

True or False? The art of the Group of Seven evolved from a love of the land.

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

True or False? Thomson, MacDonald, Lismer, Varley, Johnston, and Carmichael all started their careers as graphics designers.

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

True or False? Portraits were the most common topic of the Group of Seven’s paintings?

Answer 5

FALSE

Question 6

True or False? Emily Carr was a member of the Group of Seven.

Answer 6

FALSE

Question 7

True or False? A.Y. Jackson drowned in Canoe Lake under mysterious circumstances.

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 8

True or False? Casson resigned from the Group of Seven in 1926.

Answer 8

FALSE

Question 9

True or False? A.Y. Jackson was Carmichael’s apprentice.

Answer 9

FALSE

Question 10

True or False? Photorealism meant painting so realistically that it looked like a photograph.

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

True or False? Thomson had a cabin in Algonquin Park.

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

True or False? Emily Carr asked Harris to join the Group of Seven.

Answer 12

FALSE

Question 13

True or False? The Group of Seven disbanded in 1930.

Answer 13

TRUE

Question 14

True or False? Woodland painting includes ovoids and black outlines.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

True or False? Daphne Odjig was a founding member of the Indigenous Group of Seven.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

Name the original members of the Group of Seven.

Answer 16

Harris, MacDonald, Carmichael, Jackson, Johnston, Varley, and Lismer

Question 17

Who was the driving force behind the formation of the Group of Seven?

Answer 17

Lawren Harris

Question 18

Which member of the Group of Seven was an artist in residence at the Kleinburg Gallery?

Answer 18

Answer was wrong on test, please fill in accordingly.

Question 19

Which member of the Group of Seven later used the technique of photographic realism after leaving?

Answer 19

Frank Johnston

Question 20

What two vehicles did Harris use to take the Group on painting exhibitions?

Answer 20

Caboose, two-seater plane

Question 21

Which art exhibition was the inspiration to create a solely Canadian art?

Answer 21

Scandinavian

Question 22

Who painted totem poles as a part of the Canadian national identity?

Answer 22

Emily Carr

Question 23

Which two members of the Group of Seven joined only a year or two before the disbandment?

Answer 23

Edwin Holgate and LeMoine Fitzgerald

Question 24

Who resigned from the Group of Seven and later was known as “Franz”?

Answer 24

Frank Johnston

Question 25

Who drowned in Canoe Lake?

Answer 25

Tom Thomson

Question 26

Who was associated with the Group of Seven, but never a member?

Answer 26

Emily Carr

Question 27

Who was the youngest member of the original Group of Seven?

Answer 27

Franklin Carmichael

Question 28

Which Indigenous community later became an artist cooperative?

Answer 28

Kingait/Cape Dorset

Question 29

Which artist was 57 when they exhibited their work in the National Gallery of Canada?

Answer 29

Emily Carr

Question 30

What region of Canada did Emily Carr incorporate into her landscapes?

Answer 30

Indigenous communities in British Columbia

Question 31

What were the two subjects of Emily Carr’s paintings?

Answer 31

Indigenous culture and Canadian landscapes

Question 32

What was the subject matter of the Group of Seven’s paintings?

Answer 32

Canadian landscapes

Question 33

Which print of Kenouak Ashevak later became a Canadian postage stamp?

Answer 33

Enchanted Owl

Question 34

Name three Inuit artists.

Answer 34

Pootoogook, Ashuna, Pitsulak

Question 35

Describe five stylistic techniques of “The Enchanted Owl”.

Answer 35

Highly stylized, negative space, simplifed forms, two-toned colour scheme, crisp and confident lines

Question 36

Describe Daphne Odjig’s mural “Indians in Transition”.

Answer 36

“Indians in Transition” is a painting showing the history of Indigenous peoples. ON the far left, it starts out with illustrations of prosperity of Indigenous people, then moving towards the right the progression of their history is depicted. Daphne painted scens showing the arrival of the Europeans, the dominance of the Church, and the residential schools having a negative impact on their communities. Near the far right, scenes of reconciliation are shown where the Indigenous pople are reclaiming and embracing their culture after making a stand.

Question 37

What was the inspiration for the art of Norval Morriseau?

Answer 37

Stories, myths, and legends passed down orally from the Woodlands and Ojibwa cultures.

Question 38

Treaty

Answer 38

Agreement between two parties

Question 39

Autumn Peltier

Answer 39

Water activist

Question 40

Woodland Style

Answer 40

Ovoids and black outlines are a characteristic of this.

Question 41

Fracking

Answer 41

A form of resource extraction that impacts the ecology of the environment.

Question 42

Shaman

Answer 42

A healer

Question 43

Triptych

Answer 43

A series of 3 panels that tella story

Question 44

Photorealism

Answer 44

Painting an image as realistically as possible.

Question 45

Remediation

Answer 45

Fixing areas where resources have been extracted.

Question 46

Theophant

Answer 46

Finding God/spirituality in the landscape.

Question 47

Turtle Island

Answer 47

The name given to “North America” in Indigenous Creation stories.