The Group of Seven 2016 Calendar (Le Groupe des Sept 2016)

A wall calendar featuring beautiful reproductions of 20th-century art from the National Gallery of Canada. The Group of Seven was formed in 1920. At an important time in Canada's history, these talented artists applied their creativity and passion to a visual celebration of Canada as a wild and eminently beautiful land. Their powerful landscape paintings would come to shape the country's long romance with its wilderness and, consequently, its sense of identity. The Group of Seven / Le Groupe des Sept 2016 presents 12 distinctive masterpieces - some familiar, others lesser-known gems. Founding member Lawren Harris wrote that the Group of Seven "loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." It is this shared concept of Canada as a northern nation for which the Group of Seven is best known, and it is Canada's continued passion for the land and its natural beauty that grants modern relevance to the work of these exceptional artists. A une epoque importante de l'histoire artistique et sociale du Canada, les artistes du Groupe des Sept ont applique leur creativite et leur passion a la celebration visuelle du Canada en tant que terre sauvage et belle.Grace a leurs talents, ces artistes ont donne forme a la longue histoire d'amour de notre pays avec la nature, et consequemment, ont donne forme a notre identite. Leur caractere artistique distinctif nous captivait alors et continue de la faire aujourd'hui. Ces douze chefs-d'oeuvre provenant des galeries d'art canadien refletent un pays qui transcende tous les debats concernant l'identite nationale. La passion continue du Canada pour la terre et sa beaute naturelle confere une pertinence moderne aux oeuvres de ces artistes exceptionnels.