Wednesday, May 12, 2010

2 1/2 Years of the Norval Morrisseau Blog's Life

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>>> NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG & Protecting the Legacy of Norval Morrisseau continues...
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"Young Spirit Walker" (detail), © 1989 Norval Morrisseau
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Hi to all,
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I would like to thank you all for your contribution to this NORVAL MORRISSEAU BLOG in the last 30 months of its existance. It is proving to be an exciting success as I have always anticipated it would be. The subject is dynamic and evolving to say the least.
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The main purpose of this blog is to share information with anyone interested in the Anishinaabe (Woodland) School of Art Movement that Norval Morrisseau and other early aboriginal artists started in the late 1950's. From this start that is linked to the cliff paintings seen along the canoe routes of antiquity, and others yet to be found in other sparsely settled areas of North and South America, Canada and the World has become aware of the artistic genius of Our aboriginal culture. This artistic genius doesn't stop at visual art alone but extends to the written and performing arts that are also being recognized.
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The artistic genius of Norval Morrisseau was best described by Jack Pollock (1930-1992) who wrote: "...Norval, with his incredible ability with the formal problems of art (colour-design-space) and his commitment to the world of his people, the great Ojibway, give one the sense of power that only genius provides... It is sufficient to say that in the history of Canadian Painting, few have, and will remain giants. Norval shall."
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Thank you for your continuing support.
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Ugo Matulić a.k.a. Spirit Walker
/spiritwalker2008@gmail.com/
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> For the purposes of this blog I would like to be referred to as Spirit Walker. Miigwetch!
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* A detail of the painting in this post: "Young Spirit Walker", 36"x24", © 1989 Norval Morrisseau /Private Collection of Ugo Matulić a.k.a. Spirit Walker, Calgary Alberta/

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