Woodlands style explained

Woodlands style, also called the Woodlands school, Legend painting, Medicine painting,[1] and Anishnabe painting, is a genre of painting among First Nations and Native American artists from the Great Lakes area, including northern Ontario and southwestern Manitoba. The majority of the Woodlands artists are Anishinaabeg, notably the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Oji-Cree and the Cree.

Origin

The style was founded by Norval Morrisseau (Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabe, 1932–2007), a First Nations Ojibwe artist from Northern Ontario, Canada.[2] He learned Ojibwe history and culture primarily from his grandfather Moses "Potan" Nanakonagos and in the 1950s collected oral history of his community. Their history and cosmology provided inspiration and subject matter for his paintings. He also drew upon his personal dreams and visions.[1] Morrisseau said, "All my painting and drawing is really a continuation of the shaman's scrolls."[3] and the Eckankar religion.[4] Ojibwe intaglio, pictographs, petrographs, and birch bark scrolls (Ojibwa: [[wiigwaasabak]]), were stylistic antecedents of the Woodlands style.

Style

This visionary style emphasizes outlines and X-ray views of people, animals, plants, and spiritual beings.[1] Colours are vivid, even garish. While Morrisseau initially painted on birch bark, he mostly switched to Western art materials, such as acrylic, gouache, or watercolor paints on paper, wood panels, or canvas.

Woodlands school artists

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.native-american-artworld.com/aboriginal-art-norval-morrisseau.html "Norval Morrisseau."
  2. Berlo and Phillips, p. 229
  3. Berlo and Phillips, p. 230
  4. Web site: Rockingham . Graham . The AGH Norval Morrisseau collection finally gets its day . The Hamilton Spectator . 23 April 2020 . October 11, 2018.
  5. News: Artistic community mourns loss of Ahmoo Angeconeb, 62, of Lac Seul First Nation. 13 June 2017. CBC News. 4 June 2022.
  6. Berlo and Phillips 231
  7. 1998 . Benjamin Chee Chee . St. James Guide to North American Artists . Gale in Context Biography.
  8. Smith . Theresa S. . Debassige . Blake . Cheechoo . Shirley . Mishibinijima . James Simon . Bell . Leland . 1994 . Beyond the Woodlands: Four Manitoulin Painters Speak Their Minds . American Indian Quarterly . 18 . 1 . 1–24 . 10.2307/1185726 . 1185726 . 0095-182X.
  9. Web site: Church, Kelly Jean . 2024-03-22 . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2014 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B2260379.
  10. Web site: 1996 . Obituary: Eddy Cobiness . dead . https://archive.today/20130117025018/http://www.ammsa.com/publications/windspeaker/obituary-eddy-cobiness . 17 Jan 2013 . AMMSA.
  11. Web site: Street Artist in Brush Strokes . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151226140934/http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=18e7b07a-f8d2-4629-8d46-2f6077a3f4b5 . 26 December 2015.
  12. Web site: Woodland art and wisdom of artist/elder Abe Kakepetum WorldCat.org . 2024-03-22 . search.worldcat.org . en.
  13. Web site: Daphne Odjig [footprints] Woodlands meets Picasso in artist's vibrant style ]. 2024-03-22 . Windspeaker.com . en.
  14. Web site: Artist and Scholar List. First American Art Magazine. 8 July 2016.
  15. Web site: Vision Circle: The art of Roy Thomas . 2024-03-22 . en-US.
  16. Web site: Posted . Sydney Hildebrandt . 2020-01-03 . Jan 2020: Painting on the walls . 2024-03-22 . Our Communities . en-US.

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