Andrew Kear
Author
Andrew Kear is chief curator and curator of Canadian art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and a sessional lecturer at the University of Winnipeg. His curatorial efforts include William Kurelek: The Messenger, Storm and Spirit: The Eckhardt-Gramatté Collection of German Expressionist Art, and L.L. FitzGerald’s Impressionist Decade, 1910–1920. In 2016 he prepared the first survey exhibition on the painter Karel Funk. Kear’s writing has been published in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Sculpture.
Online Art Books
Essays
William Kurelek traversed the country in a quest to capture its diverse inhabitants
By Andrew Kear
No Canadian painter has ever been so simultaneously praised and reviled
By Andrew KearWilliam Kurelek traversed the country in a quest to capture its diverse inhabitants
By Andrew KearNo Canadian painter has ever been so simultaneously praised and reviled
By Andrew KearSpotlights
Satire, religion, and nuclear disaster combine in William Kurelek’s This Is the Nemesis, 1965
By Andrew Kear
William Kurelek’s Reminiscences of Youth, 1968, opens one memory into another
By Andrew Kear
William Kurelek makes his intentions clear in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1950
By Andrew Kear
Impending dooms unsettles William Kurelek’s In the Autumn of Life, 1964
By Andrew KearSatire, religion, and nuclear disaster combine in William Kurelek’s This Is the Nemesis, 1965
By Andrew KearWilliam Kurelek’s Reminiscences of Youth, 1968, opens one memory into another
By Andrew KearWilliam Kurelek makes his intentions clear in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1950
By Andrew KearImpending dooms unsettles William Kurelek’s In the Autumn of Life, 1964
By Andrew Kear