Lawren Harris Group 7 Analysis

What I think of when I hear art is expression. Personally, I think that the greatest form of expression is through art. Art can be visual art, writing, drama, and music. It’s very interesting because no expression is the exact same ; they are always personally special-made by the artist. The Group of seven is a great representation of personal expression. In their time they created a name for themselves as well as creating a new form of art for Canada. They were very important members of the art society.

The Group of Seven was a ensemble of originally seven canadian artists who painted landscapes of Canada’s most beautiful places. The artists that officially began the group in 1920 were Lawren Harris, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson,
Their paintings of landscapes became known as a prominent type of canadian art which was yet to be named.

One very important member of this group, Lawren Harris, is the one I chose for this essay. Lawren Harris was born into a rich family fortune on October 23rd, 1885, and he lived quite nicely as a child. While he was trying to find his place in the world, he studied many things like Theosophy, Philosophy, and Eastern Thought. Although Harris studied all these things in his university years, he only truly worked with art and painting. The first member of the soon-to-be group of seven he met was J.E.H. MacDonald. They met in 1911 and later on, in 1920 they formed the group of seven together.

One thing I learned about Lawren Harris is that in 1914, Harris paid for a studio in Toronto to be built for artists who wanted a place to work for a low cost. He and the other artists in the group of seven often used this studio as a workspace. Another thing I learned about Lawren is that his art had many different phases. At the beginning of his career, Harris mostly painted urban areas with vivid and bright colours. After a visit to Lake Superior in 1921, he changed his type of art to more simple and duller colours with more mountainous