An Objibwa/Chippewa shaman, Norval Morrisseau was one of the first
native Canadians to adopt modernist styles that conveyed traditional
aboriginal imagery. "His style, which became known as Woodland or
Legend painting, evoked ancient etching from birch-bark scrolls and
often used X-ray like motifs: skeletal elements and internal
organs visible within the forms of animals and people, and black spirit
lines emanating from them."
He used saturated, startling colors desc (showing 500 of 3436 characters). |
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