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'AB tists Still Seek New - Fields Of Expression Assessing By BOB TRIMBEE VANCOUVER (CP) -- Any- thing new in art often is offen- sive to an onlooker until he becomes accusiomed to it, says Lawren Harris, famed Canadian painter and a prime leader of the Group of Seven "As a matter of fact, all art is a series of reactions both from within the painter and the onlooker. The _ impressionist style of the Group of Seven pro- duced violent reactions at first, then gradually people became accustomed to it and it was ac- cepted. "The same trend existed when abstracts first appeared. Even among artists there was violent reaction because no two people} react alike to a painting "Modern painting allows an artist to express any subject.| Often it is a turmoil of calore.| but when features are pointed! out and the connection related} it can be understood." Harris, now 76 and still the acknowledged leader of Can- ada's school of modernistic ar-| tists, has not let age interfere! with his search for new means! of expression in art. Neither has it diminished the rebel qualities that have often made him a centre of controversy. SEEKS NEW FIELDS At an age when most men stop to reflect on past accom- plishments, Harris continues to seek new fields of artistic ex- pression. "My work has gone beyond abstractions. There's no way of| telling what the next step is.| When I begin a work today I| have no idea what the finished| product will look like until I'm) almost finished | "The key is design. You relate colors and gradually the subject or thing develops." An assiduous painter, usually) on a large scale, Harris works in a large, bright den on the ground floor of his two-storey home in the university district. In appearance he is distinctive} and impressive with a mass of white hair. His residence sits on a hill-) side overlooking English Bay.| A high hedge blocks the view| to the road beneath, but not! out across the bay. > Inside, numerous painting by| Harris and his wife, Bess, a top-| ranked painter in her own right, | hang on the walls or are care- fully grouped along the wall.| They reflect the entire range of} Harris's work. Originally a landscapist, he later turned to non-objective compositions. "IT have no trouble working from one to another, In line and) in color I believe there is a great similarity between mod- ernistic art. and that of the old masters."' STUDY IN GERMANY Lawren Stewart Harris was born in Brantford, Ont., in 1885, the son of Thomas Harris and Annie Stewart. His family was) one of the Massey-Harris farm} implement manufacturers. But this field did not. interest young) Harris. "IL made only two trips to the| works, more out of curiosity) than anything else.' He studied art in Germany) from 1908. to 1911, returning to this continent to accept a job) as an illustrator with a New) York magazine. He returned to LAWREN HARRIS Canada a year later, painting street scenes and old houses in the slums and outskirts of Tor- onto Harris was not burdened by the financial worries that plagued many of his compan- ions. He helped finance con- struction of the Studio Building in Toronto, which served as a headquarters for the Group of Seven. | The group, the most noted Ca-| nadian art body, was an infor- mal association and did not ex- ist in the sense of an organized society. Its members shunned established European art tech- niques to develop their own dis- tinctive Canadian style For seven years they worked, much of the time travelling about Lake Superior and in Al-/ gonquin Park. During the sum-} mer they lived in a railway box- car. It was moved to a new siding every three or four days. 'NATIONAL MENACE' The group's first exhibit was at the Toronto Art Gallery in} 1920 and critics labelled it "the! hot-mush school." Besides Har-| ris, the originals in the group| were three men still living--A. | Y. Jackson, Fred Varley and/ Arthur Lismer -- and the late . Franklin Carmichael, J. E. H.| MacDonald and Franz John-| ston, A member of took particular Harris's northern and said they were a menace" because they discourage immigration "We accepted the criticism as) partly a compliment and we couraged it," said Harris, 'Our' work tried to exhibit the savage! landscapes of Canada. We were) painting this country in its own} exception to 'national would terms, painting it as Canadians| saw it and not as Europeans saw it. "Later the National Gallery bought some of our works and that seemed to wake up Cana- ction.) landscapes) lectured at the School of Art.| |He has encouraged many young) artists and did much to bring the work of Emily Carr before anadians. "She was the first Canadian| painter to be decidely in- lfluenced by West Coast land- scape. You can't go anywhere! en-|in the woods but you recognizejin improving that eye appeal, | land is helping set more precise an Emily Carr." In October, 1948, the Toronto Art Gallery honored him with a major one-man exhibition, the first living artist so honored by the gallery. He has received honorary doctor of law degrees from three Canadian universi- *|ties and his exhibitions here and lin Eastern Canada have at- tracted record crowds TTR USTAWA TIMES, =] Wedngsday,. Moreh, ye y AAR Color's Role | Food Quality OTTAWA (CP)--Eye appeal) lof foods, largely a matter of | lcolor, is 45 per cent of the as-| sessment of quality, say federal experts. Electronics is playing a role grading standards. A beam of white light is fo- cused on the item. The amount and color of reflected light then| is measured on a scale ranging) from zero--for black--to 100, or} white. One result has been specifica- tions for a uniform yellow but- WATCHES REDUCED * BULOVA % GRUEN * TISSOT * OMEGA +% GLADSTONE *% ELCO 25% Choice Selling Without Reserv LOOK FOR THE "RED SALE TAGS" Every Article Priced To "MOVE" ter color year around across) the country. June production) doesn't need any touching up but a substance called carofene has been used for paler prod- ucts in other months. dians to what we were trying to do. "Today we are in an inter-| national style of abstractions. His most widely reproduced works include North Shore, {Lake Superior. It now hangs in From the outside it may seem| \the National Gallery at Ottawa. a scramble, but it is not. It) {Another is Shacks, which typi- could be a sign that art is dis-/fies the early period of his) agreement hasn't been turbed and the world in a mess. | painting. reached among consumers on Art has presaged it before. It} Harris's interest in art began|just what color standards are jis the same in architecture, in'early. As a youngster of eight|desirable in different products-- | literature and in music. he painted Christmas cards andjor whether the same should The Group of Seven later took|sent them to relatives. At 12 prevail in all regions, federal in younger painters who were|he was taking weekly lessons scientists say ollowing a similar pattern andiand he chose study in Europe} Once plant breeders know be 1933 became known as the|over enrolment in the Univers-|such standards exist, they can Canadian Group of Painters.|ity of Toronto iget to work on types that qual- Harris became the first presi-| Harris is the author of many |ify. {dent and from 1944-47 was pre-| articles interpreting art to Ca- Gassiorteies at the Morden, sident of the Federation of Ca-|nadians and he has joined ir|Man., experimental farm have nadian Artists. \school radio broadcasts to dis-/been working on tomato color- In 1942 he moved here and' cuss art. ings. 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