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CANADIAN LANDSCAPES/ PAYSAGES CANADIENS ON-LINE VISUAL RESOURCES Only by seeing the works of Canadas war artist can they be fully appreciated. Thousands of images can be found on the Web, only a few clicks away, but in many cases the quality is very bad. This is a brief guide to the most useful sites for those wishing to view at least some of the paintings, and perhaps learn more about the artists themselves. Canadian War Museum - https://www.warmuseum.ca/. There is probably more material on this site devoted to Canada’s war art than anywhere else on-line, and a quick search for “war art” reveals this richness. However, there is one caveat. The articles are fascinating and very informative, but — something hard to comprehend given the specific remit of this museum - the images are often very small and faulty in their colouring. Art Canada Institute — https://www.aci-iac.ca/. Again, a quick search for “war art” pulls up links to a host of lively and informed sites. And the quality of the reproductions is superb. Mount Allison University — https://www.mta.ca/library/courage/. This is the link to a project at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, entitled “Courage Remembered”, a comprehensive overview of Canada in the two world wars. “Canada’s War Artists” offers a wealth of information about artists from both wars and images of their works. It is, however, a slightly tricky site to navigate. Wikimedia - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_in_the_Canadian_ War_Museum_by_artist. A list of links to high-quality images of paintings by twenty-two Canadian war artists in the Canadian War Museum, four of whom were official war artists in World War II: Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris, and Molly and Bruno Bobak. Canvas of War — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GM_l4cWuBE. A documentary film from 2000 about the World War II war art programme, which explores the context and includes amusing and enlightening interviews with sixteen of the official artists, then in their seventies and eighties. Don Sparling attended the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. After coming to Czechoslovakia in 1969 he lived and taught in Brno and Prague, first at language schools and from 1977 at the Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, where he taught courses in Canadian and American literature and cultural studies and was twice Chair. From 2000 to his retirement in 2009, he was Director of the University’s Office for International Studies. Founding President of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies, he is currently its Treasurer. Co-author of ten English-language textbooks and author of the cult handbook English or Czenglish: How to Avoid Czechisms in English, he has also published numerous articles dealing with Canadian literature (historical fiction), multiculturalism, Native studies and cultural semiotics. s 186 +
