Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Group of Seven - A.J casson

Heres some links to some paintings by a famous painter from the group of seven named A.J Casson. Enjoy!

http://susan.chin.gc.ca/~mcch01/1966_16_119.jpg

http://www.northlandart.com/news_pr/casson/country_store.html

http://www.northlandart.com/news_pr/casson/winter_village.html


A.J casson used alot of clear cut and vibrant colours.
Also his style of painting looked very cartoonish because of how he used almost no shading and never blended. Often you will see these sort of puffy trees in casson's paintings with only two tones of colour in each of the trees. He also often puts a type of fluffy cloud into his backgrounds. Casson is also more know for painting gentle hills, small towns, villages, and farms in southern Ontario. Casson would deliberately find things to paint that were not the preferred material for the other group members.

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