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oapen-20.500.12657-574782022-07-19T03:02:13Z From Realism to Abstraction Davies, Adriana A. Art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles Highly respected as an Alberta artist and teacher, J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) is best known for his representational, semi-abstract, and abstract paintings of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Taylor's initial influences were the American landscape painters of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, he moved from a more traditional representation of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape rock, water, and sky as impacted by light. Rather than presenting mountains in all their majesty, using acrylics and other media, he captured the aura of the mountains in a unique and abstract style. 2022-07-18T11:54:30Z 2022-07-18T11:54:30Z 2014 book ONIX_20220718_9781552387641_55 19274351 9781552387641 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57478 eng Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552387641.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552387641 186 Calgary open access
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Highly respected as an Alberta artist and teacher, J. B. (Jack) Taylor (1917-1970) is best known for his representational, semi-abstract, and abstract paintings of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Taylor's initial influences were the American landscape painters of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ultimately, he moved from a more traditional representation of nature to an intuitive perception of the essential elements of landscape rock, water, and sky as impacted by light. Rather than presenting mountains in all their majesty, using acrylics and other media, he captured the aura of the mountains in a unique and abstract style.
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