CANADIAN INUIT AND NATIVE ARTIST PROFILES
Norval Morrisseau Norval Morrisseau, born in Sandy Lake, Ontario in 1932, painted prolifically until his death in 2007. As a member of the Indian Group of Seven, Morrisseau, also known as “Copper Thunderbird”, founded the Woodlands School of Canadian art. This school of art is characterized by thick black outlines, bright colours
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THE INUIT: FROM SURVIVAL TO ART
The Inuit, formerly referred to as the “Eskimos”, have survived for thousands of years in some of the harshest, inhospitable and coldest climates in the world – the Canadian Arctic. Their struggle, survival and appreciation for nature is a common recurring theme in their art. The Canadian Arctic – colloquially known as