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artists and writers from coast to coast embraced the belief that art can only be made out of the specifics of life, place and time. Curnoe was one of many, but he was a leader and one of the strongest voices....It was not that they rejected all art made in what are called ‘art centres’ per se, but
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The movement was composed of a group of artists who acknowledged their home as the centre and subject of creative activity; who acknowledged yet refused to situate themselves in the art world of the metropolitan centre; who refused to participate in ‘movements’. In fact, the term "regionalism" was
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adopted by the community in a spirit of defiance after a Toronto critic used it in a derisive way to describe the scene. The movement is jokingly referred to as not an "ism" at all, but "a group of artists who had decided to stay home."
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that they rejected the right of any person or group to prescribe what art should be....They sought out and found, in their own lives and localities, the stuff of their art."
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was international, and his constant technical experimentation was in line with developments in the
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By the late sixties, the movement became an object of interest for Canadian art critics. In
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Lord, Barry (Sep–Oct 1969). "What London, Ontario Has that Everywhere Else Needs".
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Greg Curnoe stated in 1983 that London Regionalism was in no way related to 1930s
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Heath, Terrence (2001). "The Trojan Bicycle: Greg Curnoe's Life & Stuff".
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is a Canadian art movement that developed in the late 1950s and 1960s in
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and kept his eye on the work of friends there. His reputation as an
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Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. (Indian Group of Seven)
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a series
Canadian art
Beaver Hall Group
Canadian Art Club
Canadian Group of Painters
Eastern Group of Painters
Federation of Canadian Artists
General Idea
Group of Seven
Jewish Painters of Montreal
Ontario Society of Artists
Painters Eleven
Native Indian Artists Inc
Regina Five
Les Automatistes
London Regionalism
Plasticien
Indigenous
Inuit art
Vancouver School
Formline art
NSCAD conceptual art
Woodlands style
Canadian Art
Canadian Forum
Canadian Review of Music and Art
FILE Megazine
Fuse
Parachute
Vanguard

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