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Concept image of “Group Portrait 1957” (by Heavy Industries) Artist: Douglas Coupland Permanent, outdoor sculpture at the The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario. See Official unveiling Douglas Coupland used the seminal portrait of the Painters Eleven, Peter Croydon’s 1957 group portrait, as a framework on which to place abstract forms that represent each member. Unveiling of Coupland’s “Group Portrait 1957″ As part of his process, Coupland requested an archival portrait of the artists from the RMG, then researched the colours that were most prominent in their individual paintings. Each set of circles represents a different artist: from Jack Bush and Harold Town to Hortense Gordon and Kazuo Nakamura, all members are rendered as a type of abstract art in themselves. Douglas Coupland: Group Portrait in Circles

Concept image of “Group Portrait 1957” (by Heavy Industries)

Artist: Douglas Coupland

Permanent, outdoor sculpture at the The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario.

See Official unveiling

Douglas Coupland used the seminal portrait of the Painters Eleven, Peter Croydon’s 1957 group portrait, as a framework on which to place abstract forms that represent each member.

Unveiling of Coupland’s “Group Portrait 1957″

As part of his process, Coupland requested an archival portrait of the artists from the RMG, then researched the colours that were most prominent in their individual paintings. Each set of circles represents a different artist: from Jack Bush and Harold Town to Hortense Gordon and Kazuo Nakamura, all members are rendered as a type of abstract art in themselves.

Douglas Coupland: Group Portrait in Circles

Source: Flickr / heavyindustries
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