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Tom Thomson’s Islands, Canoe Lake, 1916: a rock as the head of a bear

Tom Thomson’s Islands, Canoe Lake, 1916: a rock as the head of a bear AbstractTom Thomson is a doyen of Canadian art. Here, I argue one of his well-known pictures contains a hidden figure. In Thomson’s Islands, Canoe Lake, 1916, a blue-gray picture primitive richly affords a rock and a bear, a long-overlooked ambiguity, one that Thomson did not tell us he intended. Its picture primitives are contours and patches. They offer a limited set of scene primitives. A likelihood ratio of less than 1 in 100 supports the contention that the bear is a hidden figure. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

Tom Thomson’s Islands, Canoe Lake, 1916: a rock as the head of a bear

Kennedy, John M.
Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 15 (1): 18 – May 1, 2022
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Abstract

AbstractTom Thomson is a doyen of Canadian art. Here, I argue one of his well-known pictures contains a hidden figure. In Thomson’s Islands, Canoe Lake, 1916, a blue-gray picture primitive richly affords a rock and a bear, a long-overlooked ambiguity, one that Thomson did not tell us he intended. Its picture primitives are contours and patches. They offer a limited set of scene primitives. A likelihood ratio of less than 1 in 100 supports the contention that the bear is a hidden figure.

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Cognitive Semiotics – de Gruyter

Published: May 1, 2022

Keywords: ambiguity; Canadiana; painting; perception, Thomson

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