23 Facts About Paraskeva Clark

Paraskeva Clark was the eldest of the couple's three children and was given four years more schooling than most girls of the time.

Paraskeva Clark's extended education can be attributed to both her father who instilled in her his enjoyment of books and learning and to her mother who made artificial flowers to supplement the family's income.

Paraskeva Clark's mother died of pneumonia in when Paraskeva Clark was 17, a year after her youngest child had graduated.

The school was reopened as the tuition-free Free Art Studios, and Paraskeva Clark was admitted and given a stipend.

Paraskeva Clark left in 1921 and was recruited among other students to paint sets for theatres.

Paraskeva Clark had little opportunity for her own art, while caring for her son and doing domestic work for her in-laws; despite this she created Memories of Leningrad in 1923: Mother and Child in 1924, and a self-portrait in 1925.

In 1929, six-year-old Benedict was sent to a boarding school during week days and Paraskeva Clark took a job outside of her in-laws home, in an interior design shop.

In 1916, Paraskeva Clark discovered that the landscape painter Savely Seidenberg's studio was on the same streetcar line as the shoe factory where she worked; she began to take art night classes there.

Paraskeva Clark immersed herself in conversations with her peers about art styles, including impressionism, post impressionism, cubism and the artists who were central to those movements.

Paraskeva Clark was a thinker, an intellectual, and from him Clark gained some sense of depth of an intellectual, thoughtful life.

Paraskeva Clark was interested in colour and still life, to which Petrov-Vodkin brought his theories of space, and studied his way of depicting a visual perspective that was not an artificial architectural construction.

In years to come, Paraskeva Clark drew on her teacher's concept of tilting the usual verticals and horizontals, she employs this technique in her 1947 painting Essentials of Life.

Paraskeva Clark's painting Pink Cloud, 1937 in the National Gallery of Canada collection was cited as an example of her delicate sense of colour.

In Petroushka, Paraskeva Clark creates a seemingly innocent scene of street entertainers; it was painted as an outranged response to newspaper reports of the killing of five striking steelworkers by Chicago police in the summer of 1937.

Paraskeva Clark chose to adapt the story of Petrushka to a North American context.

Paraskeva Clark spoke out about the role and responsibility of the artist; she declared:.

Paraskeva Clark urged Canadian artists to "Come Out From Behind the Pre-Cambrian Shield" as she titled an article she wrote in 1937 in "New Frontier".

Bethune and Paraskeva Clark had a brief affair; the relationship had an influence on the latter's politics.

Paraskeva Clark was appointed by the National Gallery of Canada to record the activities of the Women's Divisions of the Armed Forces during World War II.

Paraskeva Clark's work was to become one of the few politically influenced pieces to survive the era.

From 1951 to 1956, Paraskeva Clark gave several large solo shows which were favourably received.

In 1965, after multiple rejections of her work, Paraskeva Clark resigned from the Ontario Society of Artists.

Philip Clark died in 1980, and after living for a time in a nursing home Paraskeva Clark suffered a stroke and passed away on August 10,1986, at the age of 87.