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Norval (called Copper Thunderbird) Morrisseau, Artist and Shaman between Two Worlds, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 175 x 282 cm, National Gallery of Canada.
Jul 21, 2010 · The Ojibwa cosmology emerged in all its complexity. At the centre was always the image of the artist changing, vacillating between two worlds, caught between two cultures. Elizabeth McLuhan. 1984. Labels: 1980 , Elizabeth McLuhan , Norval Morrisseau , Shaman.
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When Norval Morrisseau arrived on the Canadian art scene in 1962, he was something of an anomaly. At a time when enforced assimilation was national policy and First Nations had only recently been accorded the right to vote in federal elections, few Indigenous people made art that was viewed as contemporary within the narrow framework accepted in ma...
Shaped largely by Anishinaabe cultural practices and his unique approach to storytelling, Norval Morrisseau’s art style was distinctly different from what was fashionable in Eurocentric art circles. His visual vocabulary included heavy black lines that defined his subjects and divided their interior spaces, as well as the use of lines, colour, and ...
Shamans are considered intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds, and, in a global context, engage in ecstatic experience. Norval Morrisseau, too, served as an intermediary and used his art as a medium with which to illustrate spiritual pathways. Curator Greg Hill notes that the artist’s “practice of shamanism was p...
Norval Morrisseau challenged mainstream views of Indigenous peoples and succeeded in raising awareness and breaking down barriers. At the same time, he pioneered a new style of art that brought more Indigenous artists into mainstream galleries and is still practised today. Still, because of his struggles with substance abuse, his unconventional lif...
Inspired by the new-age religion of Eckankar, Norval Morrisseau’s painting depicts the coming together of two spiritual realms, that of the thunderbird of the upper world and the serpent of the under world.
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Feb 3, 2006 · The Anishnaabe (Ojibwa) painter’s sublimely colourful and deeply spiritual works have inspired three generations of First Nations artists and made him an icon of Canadian art. Norval Morrisseau, also called Copper Thunderbird, rose to fame in the 1960s as the originator of the Woodland School.
