Emily Carr's Adventure to Art

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Emily Carr’s Adventure to Art

                                                         

  Bonnie Cheng

                                                           Mrs. Talbot

                                                             Grade 9 Art

                                                                   November 12, 2001

Emily Carr’s Adventure to Art

        Emily Carr, one of Canada’s favorite and best-known artists had accomplished a lot in her lifetime. She was born on December 13th, 1871 on Vancouver Island in a small town of Victoria. However she had sadly passed away on March 2nd 1945 because of poor health conditions. Her dreams were always to become an artist and create her own Canadian style. Yet, she had overcome lots of problems in which she faced them with courage, imagination and humor.

        Her inspirations of becoming an artist all started out when she was a child. She was nicknamed “Small” in her family since she was the smallest child out of five children who were all girls. Emily was different from all her sisters. They liked to play Ladies but she didn’t. She even thought animals were better companions than her sisters. She longed for a dog when she was 8 years old but she wasn’t allowed. So she decided to draw one and figured out drawing was fun. When she showed her father, he was impressed. He decided to arrange her into drawing lessons. She discovered drawing was so much fun that she couldn’t stop at all. However she was always getting into trouble such as not listening in class. In order to avoid all the scolding from people, she decided to go out to the woods in where she had discovered the beauty of nature. She liked the woods so much that she said, “ Some day when I am really an artist I shall be able to paint these mysterious forests.” (Carr) When Emily was 15, her mother had died. Two years after her mother’s death, her father had also passed away and left a trust fund to provide the needs of his five children. Emily wanted to go to France or England but the trip was too expensive so she went to San Francisco where it was closer and cheaper.

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        In the late 1893, Emily Carr’s family couldn’t afford her studies no longer so her experience in San Francisco had ended there. In her three years of study in San Francisco, her work was “ humdrum and unemotional--- objects honestly portrayed, nothing more.”(Newlands) Years had passed, so did her childhood. She was still determined to become a real artist. When she was back in Canada she would go on as many painting trips as she could. She was interested in doing paintings on totem poles so she decided to visit the West Coast where the native people were. She ...

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