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The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)

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Renée Van Halm

1949 -

Renée Van Halm was born in Amsterdam in 1949 and came to Canada in 1954. She spent two decades in Toronto before moving to Western Canada, where she trained at the Vancouver School of Art, graduating in 1975. She then moved to Montreal and completed her master's degree in Fine Arts at Concordia University. In 1978 she moved back to Toronto, where she was involved in setting up and working as a curator and director of the artist-run centre Mercer Union.

In the early part of her career, Van Halm was interested in creating forms that were hybrids of many media, not purely painting, sculpture, or architecture. The evolution of her subject and medium has led her to consider the many forms of visual presentation in our culture. In her efforts to uncover how value is ascribed, she looks at painting as well as commercial advertising and public display.

Over the years Van Halm's work has moved from a concern with formalist practices to ideas about cultural construction. She has come to rely less on making lush, painterly objects and more on creating subtly coloured surfaces and structures. Van Halm lives in Vancouver and teaches at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.

Renée Van Halm

Birth name

Renée Van Halm

Born

Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1949

Nationality

Dutch, Canadian

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“Facing Extinction: Architecture, Power, and Vulnerability”. (1 min 49 sec)

Facing Extinction “Driftwood and the Berlin Olympic Stadium in Facing Extinction: Connecting Images and Ideas”. (2 min 19 sec)

Facing Extinction Hybrids: Neither Painting, Sculpture, nor Architecture. (1 min 29 sec)

Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form: “An Absent Space that the Viewer Projects Onto”. (0 min 57 sec)

Anticipating the Eventual Emergence of Form “Porticos, Porches and Stages”. (1 min 5 sec)

Verification “The Signature and the Authentic Work of Art”. (1 min 29 sec)

“Verification: Codification/Commodification of Colour”. (0 min 56 sec)

“Lived Experience and Finding Images”. (0 min 27 sec)

“Scale of My Work”. (0 min 16 sec)

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