17 facts about Greg Curnoe

Greg Curnoe (19 November 1936 – 14 November 1992) was a Canadian painter known for his concentration upon subjects allied with regionalism and London, Ontario. Curnoe is part of the Canadian art hobby labeled London Regionalism. He was the driving force behind a regionalist sensibility that, beginning in the 1960s, made London, Ontario, an important middle for artistic production in Canada. While his oeuvre chronicled his own daily experience in a variety of media, it was ashore in twentieth-century art movements, especially Dada, with its emphasis upon nihilism and anarchism, Canadian politics, and popular culture. He is remembered for brightly coloured works that often incorporate text to Keep his mighty Canadian patriotism, sometimes expressed as anti-Americanism, as capably as his activism in withhold of Canadian artists.