Lawren Stewart Harris: A Representational Artist In Canada

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On the 23rd of October in 1885, a Man was born with no knowledge that he will become one of the seven artists of capturing Canada’s identity. A representational painter was his first inspiration in his early years of painting within Canada. Yet, he soon came to realize that his passion in painting would take a shift more towards abstraction within his paintings which resulted in his up rise within Canadian history.
He became the founder and leader of “The group of seven” as more people took recognition of his attempts to portray the beauty of Canada through landscape paintings with an abstract theme. According the book, “Lawren Stewart Harris, a painters progress,” the group consisted of seven people, specifically painters, that emphasized

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