Bibliographic record
Abstract
Este artigo examinará alguns retratos de canadenses pintados por canadenses. A intenção será observar se tais retratos transmitem um sentido do que é ser canadense e, também, se podemos falar, legitimamente, sobre um estilo canadense de pintura de retratos. O artigo girará em torno da idéia de um ‘geografia’ da arte, ao invés da ‘história’ da arte. Para tratar do empenho artístico que qualquer povo tem em comum, como é o caso do caráter nacional expresso na arte – defendo – é tratar da geografia da arte. O artigo focalizará quatro retratos pintados por Edwin Holgate provavelmente caracterizado no imaginário de muitas pessoas como um dos membros ‘extras’ do Grupo dos Sete, o único a viver em Montreal, e o único artista de estatura a emergir do chamado Grupo de Beaver Hall. Na verdade, é a associação de Holgate com o Grupo dos Sete e sua ramificação, o Grupo Canadense de Pintores, que é, aqui, particularmente relevante. Ambos os grupos foram explícitos no seu nacionalismo. Ambos buscaram pintar o Canadá, e ambos buscaram um estilo que fosse apropriado à cena canadense. Ambos buscaram afirmar a primasia da temática canadense para os canadenses, e ambos buscaram uma linguagem visual distinta. No entanto, em última instância, o artigo irá abandonar o conceito de uma pintura canadense de retratos e demonstrar como os maiores retratos de Holgate são proposições universais. Abstract: This paper will examine a number of portraits of individual Canadians painted by Canadians. The intention will be to assess whether these portraits convey a sense of what it is to be Canadian and, of equal significance, whether we may legitimately talk about a Canadian style of portraiture. The paper will revolve around the idea of a ‘geography’ of art, rather than the ‘history’ of art. To talk about what the artistic endeavour of any one people has in common, how national character is expressed in art, is – I argue – to talk about a geography of art. The paper will focus on four portraits by Edwin Holgate, probably characterised in many people’s minds as one of the ‘extra’ members of the Group of Seven, the only one to live in Montreal, and the only artist of stature to emerge from the so-called Beaver hall Group. It is in fact Holgate’s association with the Group of Seven and its off-shoot, the Canadian Group of Painters that is especially relevant here. Both groupings were explicit in their nationalism. Both sought to paint Canada and both sought a style that would be appropriate to the Canadian scene. Both sought to assert the primacy of Canadian subject matter for Canadians and both sought a distinctive visual language. However, ultimately, the paper will relinquish the concept of a Canadian portraiture and demonstrate how Holgate’s greatest portraits are universal statements.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.030 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".