|
Group
of Seven member Arthur Lismer was an art teacher as well as an
international pioneer in child art. He was very much influenced
by the ideas of Franz Cizek who believed that children could express
their experience through drawing and painting.
Lismer
invited Anne Savage to show her students' work in an art show
that he was organising of children's paintings. He was impressed
with the quality of the work, and the two began a professional
relationship with the goal of bringing the experience of art to
children.
Savage
was at the forefront of a new era in art education. Ideas like
those of Cizek were new and exciting. Previously art education
was the teaching of geometric drawing, which left little room
for self-expression in children's art.
|
Program
for the "Pictures by Children" exhibition at the National
Gallery of Canada, 1937-38
|
