Site Guide

The Splash Page
From the Splash Page, visitors to Horizons can choose one of three languages in which to view the exhibition: English, French or Russian.

They can also choose which version of the exhibition they want to access—Flash or HTML—and obtain the Flash 6 player.

The exhibition is best viewed at 800 x 600 with Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 6 or higher and requires the Flash 6 player.
Go to the Splash Page

Home: Exhibition Overview
Horizons is a comparative virtual exhibition, which explores landscape painting in Canada and Russia, the places depicted, and the representation methods used by Canadian and Russian artists between 1860 and 1940.

The approximately 250 works in this virtual exhibition have been grouped under four major themes—Roots, Self, Voyage and Spirit—representing Canadian and Russian artistic visions of landscape.

This HTML version includes the 250 landscape paintings, found in the Flash site, as well as descriptive texts and captions for each painting. Visitors can also access the artist biographies and portraits, glossary of terms, additional resources, and credits in the HTML site.
Go To The Home Page And Exhibition Overview

Flash Site
In addition to the content found in the HTML version, the enhanced Flash version of Horizons also includes:
painting details, an audio tour, music, landscape photographs, sketches and conservation studies.

Every painting in the Flash site is also accompanied by a zoom and colour function.
Go To The Flash Site

The Roots Gallery
A Look to the Past: Reflections on traditional painting techniques used by artists to depict local landscapes.
Go To The Roots Gallery

The Self Gallery
An Exploration of Identity: Landscapes seen through the eyes of artists who broke away from academic tradition.
Go To The Self Gallery

The Voyage Gallery
An Invitation to Travel: Nature, light and landscapes of various places, as seen by artists driven by curiosity.
Go To The Voyage Gallery

The Spirit Gallery
An Expression of Transcendence: Vast spaces and sublime landscapes, painted by artists in search of the spiritual.
Go To The Spirit Gallery

Artist Biographies
Horizons includes an Artist Biographies section which lists all of the 123 artists (57 Canadian, 66 Russian) featured in this exhibition. Each artist biography provides detailed information about the life of the painter. Selected biographies also include a portrait of the artist.
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Glossary
Unsure what Abstraction is, or where to find the Zhiguli Hills? Then consult the glossary, a helpful list of more than 130 terms used in Horizons. Compiled by the exhibition’s two curators from Canada and Russia, in collaboration with the museum partners, the glossary provides concise definitions for a broad range of terms: painting techniques, art associations and movements related to the history of Canadian and Russian landscape painting, among others. It also lists definitions for some of the geographic locales referred to in the exhibition, and painted by its artists.
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Resources
Want to learn more about the artists, paintings and places presented in Horizons? Then consult the resources.
This helpful section provides a bibliography of more than 40 books about the masterpieces of Russian art, the history of Canadian painting and more.
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Credits
Horizons is the result of a joint effort by 14 art galleries and museums in Canada and Russia, who worked alongside CHIN and the Association for Documentation and Information Technologies in Museums (ADIT).

Visitors can click on the Credits link at the bottom of every page to meet the partners, producers and team of people behind this exhibition. Links to each of the participating organizations’ Web sites is also provided in the Credits.
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