Content warning for Indigenous readers: colonial violence is discussed in this essay.
Let’s liberate the Canadian landscape from the Group of Seven and their nationalist mythmaking
It has taken me a long time to reconcile the Group of Seven and their place in Canada’s mythology. On one hand, I love their paintings: they are beautiful and varied in their landscapes, a representation of these lands in all their sacredness and life. On the other hand, they suffocate. The Group of Seven’s nationalist story surrounds us like the prints of their work that hang in Canada’s households, schools, and galleries.
This sounds like culturally appropriated Bullshit. h/t DM
