Norval Morrisseau prints and original paintings presented at House of the Spirit Bear Gallery


NORVAL MORRISSEAU
	Norval Morrisseau, also called Copper Thunderbird, rose to fame in the 1960s when he developed the unique painting style known as the Woodland School. Today this art style is called Anishnaabe painting, a reference to the artist’s heritage.
	New for Feb/2010 Look Within Ourselves, 60/80 30x24 Discipline, 7/93 26x34 Just Be, Bird Forms, 58/136 25x30 Reality, 76/98 26x20 We must be Childlike,88/98 30x25 Mother & Child, 63/95 25x27 Thinking of Fishes,29/185 16x22 Bear Spirit, 41/73 34x26 Soul Looks Beyond,75/97 22x30 Soul Vision, 34/93 22x30 Shaman and Son, 11/145 29x26 Conversation, 109/122 34x25 Vision Series (set of 6 prints in case) /195 Framed serigraphs Discipline, 86/93 29x38 The Great Flood 39/120 34x26 Soul Floating in Cosmic Sea 37x29 Cosmic Children I; 19/188 23x29 Cosmic Children II; 19/188 23x29 Cause & Effect 12/99 29x22
Norval Morrisseau' s work can be seen at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection exhibition Woodlands School	The Woodland School examines the vibrant art of Woodland School painters Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Eddy Cobiness, Carl Ray, Alex Janvier, Blake Debassige, Saul Williams, Martin Panamick, and Goyce Kakegamic, Cecil Youngfox and other Woodland School artists. The Woodland School style of painting was popularized through the work of Norval Morrisseau who caught the attention of the art-buying public with his first exhibition at the Pollock Gallery in Toronto in 1962. Morrisseau, defying cultural restrictions, based his work on traditional Ojibway visual imagery taken from petroglyphs and Midewewin birchbark scrolls, as well as from the myths and legends of his people. The Woodland School style has several characteristics including; a predominant black form line, an undifferentiated background, pure colours, x-ray perspectives, and a system of interconnecting lines known as linear determinatives that indicate sacred power. The overall effect produces a bright vivid image similar in some ways to stained glass. The Woodland School has become one of the most recognizable forms of First Nations art.
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Copyright © The Gilmore Gallery of Fine Art. All art work is Copyright © 2008 Last modified: 09/03/10

Copyright © The Gilmore Gallery of Fine Art. All art work is Copyright © 2008
Last modified: 09/03/10