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Master of the Instant
Cartier-Bresson Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada

June 9 to August 28, 2010
Opening reception: June 8, 7-9pm

The West Vancouver Museum is pleased to showcase the work of the legendary French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson who is widely regarded as the founding father of photojournalism and one of the most important figures in early twentieth century art. With his famous Leica, Cartier-Bresson was able to capture life in motion with visual wit and a keen eye for geometrical composition. In coining the term "the decisive moment," he summed up his approach to photography as the interaction of mind, body and instinct.

Born in 1908 in Chanteloupen-Brie, Henri Cartier-Bresson stood to inherit his family's prosperous textile manufacture, but instead took up drawing and painting. He travelled to Africa in 1931, where he worked and stalked game before falling ill with malaria. It was when he returned to France to convalesce in Marseilles that he began taking candid photographs with his new lightweight, hand-held Leica. Throughout the next decade and beyond, Cartier-Bresson travelled to Spain and Italy, to Mexico and the United States, photographing ordinary and extraordinary people, capturing their spontaneous gestures and revealing the subtleties of the human condition. 

This exhibition features twenty-five of Cartier-Bresson's gelatin silver prints from the National Gallery's permanent collection, all dating from the 1930s and 1940s.

Lionel Thomas
Abstractions 1949 - 1990

June 9 to August 28, 2010
Opening reception: June 8, 7-9pm

Lionel Thomas (1915-2005), a pioneer of West Coast abstraction and proponent of the modern movement, helped transform the region through his art and practice. Thomas's many prominent public artworks include Symbols of the Cuneiforms circa 1960, an illuminated sculpture on the façade of the former Vancouver Public Library. This exhibition profiles Thomas's rarely seen abstract paintings inspired by nature. Thomas lived in West Vancouver and taught at the University of British Columbia from 1950 until 1981.

This exhibition is produced by the Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts in association with the West Vancouver Museum.

 

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