Like Inuit art, Amerindian art of Canada entered its contemporary period during the latter half of the 20th century. It manifested itself through the Aboriginal art of the West Coast and Woodland Indian art.

Haida sculptor Bill Reid spearheaded artistic renewal in British Columbia at the end the 50's. Carved wooden totem poles and the [Read more]

Animal art is one of the most ancient of all. In fact, animals represent the vast majority of subjects found in drawings and paintings dating back to prehistory found in various places across the globe. Some advance that, not only endowed with aesthetic character, these representations were probably used for mysterious rites connected with [Read more]

Art-therapy enables those who practice it to express their thoughts and moods. This therapeutic tool takes on several different forms: painting, drawing, sculpture, photography...

One doesn't have to have special skills to enjoy the advantages of art-therapy. The goal is rather to let people express their cares, concerns and feelings [Read more]

Automatisme was founded by Paul-Émile Borduas in 1942. Many young artists soon joined him, including Jean-Paul Riopelle, Fernand Leduc, Marcelle Ferron and Claude Gauvreau. Borduas would welcome the members of the group to his studio, where they would discuss psychoanalysis, politics and religion.

The movement drew its inspiration [Read more]

The dominant element in the field of the visual arts, color, is in fact visual perception which enables us to detect light waves and grasp certain differences between them.

The capacity to perceive the various colors results from the synthesis of the analysis performed by the eye's rods and cones. Determining the color of an object [Read more]

To take part in the pictorial revolution of the turn of the 20th Century, the followers of Cubist painting, the most famous of whom were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Francis Picabia, proposed an art in which objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in abstracted form, devoid any coherent sense of depth.

Notably inspired by [Read more]