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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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obbing the men of whom I have towrite of half their hardly earned reputa-tion to ignore or gloss over the fact ofthe public apathy toward art, which bindsthe arms of the workers and slowly killsall but the strongest and most courageous.The greater number of Canadian art-ists are landscape painters, and entirelyeschew the higher and more delicateapplication of art to the human form andhuman lif._. This preponderance oflandscape work is not altogether to beattributed to a lack of confidence orambition among the workers. It is to beaccounted for by the fact, for one thing,that the old bourgeois prejudice against CANADIAN ART AND ARTISTS. 157 the study of the nude from Hving modelsstill lingers in Canada. Even in thelargest art schools the study of the hu-man form is generally restricted to thetorso. This, men- f nies in nature as too fantastic for canvas.This is a pity, as it is an injustice tomany men of genius who dare not rebel.The almost universal adoption of Frenchmethods is a char-
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acteristic whichstrikes one in al-most every exhibi-tion of Americanpaintings. T h ecentral idea of all contemporaryFrench art is truth tioned as an illus-tration of Cana-dian sentiment,stunts the growthof a true apprecia-tion of the missionof art, and handi-caps the worker whom circumstan- •TrlilBllI ^^^ ^^ ^^-^^ ^^^^ ces prevent from . ^^^^mg^BBk the work of the studying abroad ^^K^^^H Canadian artists, or in the United r ^flH^^^^H although they are States. It can be mostly of British broadly stated that Forbidden Fruit. origin — the the most promi- from a painting by george a. reid. French Canadians, nent and excellent strangely enough, •of the Canadian artists, including the not having produced a single painter oflandscapists, are those who have accepted consequence — betrays a constant stri-partial expatriation, and lived their lives ving after its attainment. With the En- and done their work out of their nativecountry. Of these, such as have essayedfigure subjects, like

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