Group of Seven

The so-called group of seven, the union of Canadian landscape painters, who created their masterpieces from 1920 to 1933. One of the paradoxes is that only three of them painted.
Artists, whose eyes fell on the endless expanses of the north, snow, icebergs, northern lights, as well as the rhythm of northern life. The main line of the plot was that the summer in the north is short and as the entire plant world manages to make up a small amount of heat. As nature itself is adjusted to weather changes. Sometimes it seemed that the life of the plant world in the summer to the north is something like a movie in an accelerated version. It was very difficult for artists to paint in an open air - too many mosquitoes got into the paint. One of the ways out was that basic sketches were made under the open sky, and work in the room was finished or painted with oil in a very strong wind, when the wind was just blowing mosquitoes.
The northern landscape of the artists produced such a strong impression, almost religious, which they tried to convey in their works. During the existence of the so-called Group of Seven, a lot of works were created, in which they tried to convey everything they saw, felt that they were boiling in their souls.
It was believed that Canadian painting can only originate in direct contact with the northern nature. In fact, it is with these works that were created during this period that the history of the formation of Canadian painting begins.