Lowrie Warrener was a Canadian painter who was a pioneer of modernism, along with Kathleen Munn and Bertram Brooker.
12 Facts About Lowrie Warrener
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Lowrie Warrener was initially influenced by the Group of Seven`s colour and style.
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Lowrie Warrener wrote about reading it to a fellow-student at the Ontario College of Art, Carl Schaefer, in letters that are today in Ottawa in the Library and Archives Canada, in the Carl Schaefer Papers, MG 30 D-171.
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Lowrie Warrener advised to put in the colour the shape suggested and forget about whether a thing looks natural.
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Lowrie Warrener's work was in a flat-patterned, decorative landscape style.
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In 1926, Lowrie Warrener had an exhibition of his own at the Sarnia Carnegie Library and sold 25 paintings.
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In 1930, Lowrie Warrener became a set designer for avant-garde theatre, even writing a play to put on with one by play-wright and teacher Herman Voaden.
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Lowrie Warrener intended the play to combine drama, music and pantomime.
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When Lowrie Warrener was eighty-two, he spoke of his lack of knowledge when he chose to paint abstractly.
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Lowrie Warrener said that he did not know what abstract was.
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Lowrie Warrener simply chose colour that he liked and filled space.
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Lowrie Warrener called what he painted an abstract impression of colour.