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Surprise Poetry Challenge- Canadian Art

6/20/2017

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Red Cedar, by Emily Carr (Canada) 1931.
Surprise Poetry Challenge!

Did you know? The Ekphrastic Review is based in Canada. July 1 this year marks our country's 150th year birthday.

To honour this landmark occasion, let's celebrate some Canadian art. Here is a surprise ekphrastic challenge, featuring visual art prompts for you to respond to in poetry. (Prose and short fiction also welcome.)

You have ten days!  Dive into one piece for inspiration, choose a few, or try them all. Write! 

Send only your best to theekphrasticreview@gmail.com.

Deadline is June 30.

We will consider late works, but please try to send them before Canada Day. On July 1 and throughout the month, to celebrate Canada's birthday with art,  we'll post the best submissions.

Our hope is that you will discover more Canadian art and be inspired to delve beyond these images, too. Canadian art history is little known outside of our country, and sadly, sometimes inside of it, too. We have a shorter history than Europe or Africa in terms of visual art, and our numbers are small for such a large nation. We are also notoriously polite and quiet and haven't always promoted our creative wealth because most Canadians don't like to show off. But even so, we have a tremendously interesting variety of visual art, and it deserves more attention and a wider audience. 

If you find a Canadian work not shown and want to use it as a prompt for this challenge, please do!

Disclaimer: Please note, this tiny selection does not pretend to be definitive in any way. There are glaring omissions; for example, contemporary art is grossly underrepresented, and no two samples could possibly do justice to the epic variety, imagination, and skill of the diverse First Nations arts with which we have been blessed. Nor are these works specifically the "best" or best known of the particular artist highlighted. I wanted to include many more works from underrated and hardly known painters who should be; I also left out works I love and replaced them with works I don't care for at all, because it's important to contemplate art we don't like, and for prompts for writing, it's important to have an interesting selection, not just a Greatest Hits list. 

Enjoy!

 
  
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The Blue Church, Prescott, by Prudence Heward (Canada), 1933.
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A Ukrainian Pioneer's First Winter, by William Kurelek (Canada) 1973.
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Three and Blue Loop, by Jack Bush (Canada) 1971.
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Clouds, Lake Superior, by Lawren Harris (Canada), 1923.
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The Death of Elaine, by Homer Watson (Canada) 1877.
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Indian Harbour, by Doris McCarthy (Canada) 1986.
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The North American Iceberg, by Carl Beam (Canada) 1985.
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Doubtful Insight, by Greg Curnoe (Canada) 1987.
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The Great Flood, by Norval Morrissea (Canada) 1973.
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The Answer's in the Question, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada) 2015.
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A Married Couple, by Toller Cranston (Canada, 1949-2015). Exact date unknown.
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After the Grand Mass, Berthier, by Kathleen Morris (Canada) 1923.
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Composition, by Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canada) 1954.
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Woman with a Fan, by James William Morrice (Canada), 1912-1914.
2 Comments
Cathy
6/20/2017 11:07:35 am

Good selection, Lorette. There are a couple of artists I don't know!

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Alarie Tennille link
6/20/2017 05:22:50 pm

Thank you, Lorette. Just the jump start I needed!

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