Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt / Carol Bishop-Gwyn.
Art and rivalry : the marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt / Carol Bishop-Gwyn.
By
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Bishop-Gwyn, Carol.
Publication Date
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2019
Publication Information
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Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Physical Description
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253 p., [4] p. of plates. ill.
Subject Term
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Artist couples.
Painters -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Printmakers -- Canada -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Bibliography Note
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Includes biblographical references and index.
Summary
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She painted as if with pure light, radiant colours making quotidian kitchen scenes come alive with sublimated drama. He painted like clockwork, each stroke precise and measured with exquisite care, leaving no angle unchecked and no sublety of tone unattended. Some would say Mary Pratt was fire and Christopher, ice. And yet Newfoundland's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (or Jackson Pollack and Lee Krasner...) presented their marriage as a portrait of harmony and balance. But balance off the canvas rarely makes great art, and the Pratts' art was spectacular. As a youth at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Mary pursued her future husband, a prodigious art talent, and supported his determination to study painting instead of medicine. They married and removed themselves to a Newfoundland outport where his painting alone provided the means to raise a family. But as Mary's own talens became evident and she sought her own hours at the easel, when not raising their four children, and as rumours of Christopher's affair with a young model spread, the Pratts' harmonious exterior slowly cracked, to scandal in Newfoundland and fascination across the country. A marriage ended, and gave way to a furious competition for dominance in Canadian art.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780345808424
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