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Fairley was among the first in academia to champion the Group of Seven's landscape vernacular.

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Deeming their subject "the primary Canadian fact," Fairley would years later lament that Canadian art and art criticism "stood still" with the Group of Seven, hindering its progress beyond the pastoral and nostalgia for a type of Canada that increasingly differed for his experiences in Toronto. To be sure, Fairley insisted on the supremacy of the human region above all else.

On the Canadian landscape tradition he stated "I think mankind is more important than rocks and stones and trees. When the poet and painter Robert Finch convinced Fairley to take up painting, this scrutiny of human character and insistence on the present imbued his work.

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Compared to his writing, which Fairley described as a product of expression spurred by times of excitement or strain, painting was instead an inherently objective medium. Fairley approached painting with the full vocabulary of an art historian. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.

British-Canadian painter and scholar of German literature. Life and work [ edit ]. Quotes [ edit ]. Landscape" The Canadian Forum December Other honours [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw Hill. ISBN Retrieved Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on May 26, Retrieved 11 September He took a further three years of study in Jena, Germany.

He came to Canada and taught German literature at the University of Alberta.

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In he accepted the post of professor of German at the University of Toronto. At the Club he met all the members of the Group of Seven. He became a collector of art and acquired fourteen paintings by the Group. He travelled with them on their painting expeditions and became a champion for their cause and their work. In he founded The Canadian Forum.