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Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas
The Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, given to individuals who are artists or craftsman in the fields of visual arts, of the trades of art, architecture and the design. It is named in honour of Paul-Émile Borduas Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québecois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Bor .... The disciplines recognized for this prize in the field of visual arts are painting, sculpture, print, drawing, illustration, photography, textile arts, video art and multidisciplinary arts. The disciplines recognized in the field of the trades of art are those which refer to the transformation wood, leather, textiles, metals, silicates or of any other matter. Winners References References Canadian art awards Prix du Québec {{Quebec-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Borduas
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Michel Goulet (sculptor)
Michel Goulet (born August 4, 1944) is a Canadian sculptor. Born in Asbestos, Quebec, Goulet has been a professor at Université du Québec à Montréal since 1987. Michel Goulet is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto, ON. Works File:Belvedere in parc Lafontaine (Duluth street, Montreal) 2006-08-11.JPG , Michel Goulet (sculptor)'s ''Belvedere'' in parc Lafontaine, Duluth street, Montreal, Quebec Honours *1990: Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas *1994: Quebec Theatre Critic's Association prize for best scenography *2008: Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts are annual awards for achievements in visual and media arts in Canada. Up to eight awards are presented annually with the prize amount is $25,000 Created in 2000 by then Governor General Adrie ... References 1944 births 20th-century Canadian sculptors Canadian male sculptors 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century scul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Savoie
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Raymonde April
Raymonde April (born 23 June 1953) is a Canadian contemporary artist, photographer and academic. April lives in Montreal where she teaches photography at Concordia University. Her work has been shown regularly in museums and galleries in Canada and Europe. Her photographs have also been featured in various publications and awarded the Prix du Québec. Life and work April was born in Moncton, New Brunswick and raised in Rivière-du-Loup in Eastern Quebec. She studied at several universities, specifically for art. She attended the art college in Rivière-du-Loup and the École des arts visuels of the Université Laval, in Québec. April is known for her photography and academics. She has been a photographer since the 1970s. She attended and taught photography at Condordia University since 1985. She also helped open La Chambre Blanche, a facility for artists in Québec. April explores narrative through her photography. Her extensive series depict everyday life, transforming the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyne Alloucherie
Jocelyne Alloucherie, (born February 8, 1947) is a Canadian sculptor who explores the relationships between sculpture, architecture and photography through installations. Career Born in Mont-Apica, Quebec, she spent many of her early years in Chicoutimi and moved to Quebec City before 1961. She studied for short periods at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quebec between 1961 and 1965. She studied visual arts at Laval University and graduated with her B.F.A. (1971–73). She held a solo show of her work at the Musee du Quebec in 1973. In 1974, she began teaching plastic arts courses at Laval University part-time, while devoting her free time to her own art. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1981 from Concordia University.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada She has taught visual arts and art history at the Laval University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Poulin
Roland Poulin (born April 17, 1940) is a contemporary sculptor whose work is characterized by its horizontality and weightiness. He has lived in Saine-Angèle-de-Monnoir, Québec since 1986. Career Poulin was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, and with his family moved to Montreal in 1944. He had a job as an assistant graphic designer in an advertising agency when a colleague took him to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and he saw ''The Black Star'' by Paul-Émile Borduas. Seeing the painting had a decisive impact on him. He said of it later: What I felt in Borduas' painting was a certain relativity in reading, and that's still what I work with today. Subsequently, Poulin read about Borduas and the Refus global, as well as beginning to draw and paint. He took the entrance exam to the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, but when he was refused, enrolled in evening classes at the school. After two years of study, he was accepted into the day class. He studied there from 1964 to 1969. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hurtubise (painter)
Jacques Hurtubise (1939–2014) was a Canadian abstract painter,. "known for his abstract, brightly coloured acrylic paintings".. Career Hurtubise was born on February 28, 1939 in Montreal, and studied painting at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Already by 1960, at age 21, he had his first major show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He spent much of the 1960s living in New York City and becoming part of the abstract expressionist scene there. His art at that time combined geometric forms with splashed paint, and he experimented with fluorescent colors and neon light art. In the early 1970s his compositions were based on square forms, but by the late 1970s they shifted to linear patterns that resembled abstract landscapes. His later work featured "deep-black pools, rivers and geometric forms that often mask upside-down maps and text." His many awards included the grand prize for painting at the 1965 Concours Artistique du Québec, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Derouin
René Derouin (born April 28, 1936) is a multidisciplinary artist, known for revitalizing the print medium. Career Since he was a student in the 1950s, René Derouin has spent time in Mexico as well as Quebec. The Americas, Mexico’s archaeological sites and the murals of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros have made an indelible impression on him. A major theme of Derouin’s art is identity which he expresses through printmaking, drawing, sculpture and installation. Travels to the Northern Quebec territories in the 1970s led Derouin to turn his attention to the concept of "the north". In search of his roots, he also examined the concept of being American. Created after a stay in James Bay in 1979, ''Nordic Suite'' – a large print made after Derouin had a helicopter view of the territory is composed of six sheets plus their printing blocks resting on the floor. The prints refer in their imagery to the changes wrote by the processes of time. ''Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean McEwen
Jean Albert McEwen (1923 – 1999) was a Canadian painter known for his lyrical abstraction. Early life McEwen was born in 1923 Montreal to a Scottish father and French-Canadian mother. He began his working life as a pharmacist, having received a degree in pharmacy from the University of Montreal in 1947. Art career McEwen was self-taught as a painter. The first exhibition of his work was in the 1949 ''Annual Spring Exhibition'', a group show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Following the positive reception of his work as a painter in Montreal, he quit his job as a pharmacist and left Montreal for Paris, encouraged to meet Jean-Paul Riopelle. In Paris, was introduced to the painters Riopelle, Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis as well as visiting museums in Italy, Holland and Spain. On his return to Montreal in 1953, he was committed to non-figurative art, influenced by French impressionism and American abstract expressionism. In 1956, he participated in Galerie Actuelle's Montr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Whittome
Irene F. Whittome, is a multimedia artist. Life Whittome was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 4, 1942. She attended the Vancouver School of Art, and then spent five years studying printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's ''Atelier 17''. From 1968 to 2007, Whittome taught visual art in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Work Whittome has had over 35 solo exhibitions, including a major retrospective of her work at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2000. Awards In 2004, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was awarded the Prix du Québec's Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas. She was also awarded the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 1989, an award for excellence in the arts from the Gershon Iskowitz Foundation in 1992, and the Governor General of Canada's Visual and Media Arts Award in 2002. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is a Canadian arts-related orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Charney
Melvin Charney C.Q. (28 August 1935 – 17 September 2012) was a Canadian artist and architect. Career Charney grew up in a working-class family in The Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal, the eldest of three sons of Hyman and Fanny Charney. Fanny was originally from what is now Belarus, and worked in a sewing factory. Hyman Charney was from Poland, and worked as a paint salesman as well as an accomplished woodworker and decorator, creating doors for synagogues and churches. Hyman was also interested in visual arts, and from a young age, Melvin took Saturday classes at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Later in his childhood the family was able to afford to move to the edge of Outremont. He studied architecture at McGill University and Yale University, and worked in Paris and New York before returning to Montreal in 1964, where he opened his architecture practice and began teaching at the Université de Montréal. Charney submitted a design for the Canadian pavilion at Exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gagnon (peintre)
Charles Gagnon (May23, 1934 April16, 2003) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his painting, photography and film. Career Charles Gagnon was born and grew up in Montreal. He studied graphic art and interior design at Parsons School of Design, New York, then went on to the New York School of Interior Design. He also attended New York University evening classes, studying with Paul Brach (1955-1960). The city’s flourishing experimental avant-garde fascinated him and contributed to the development of his approach: He was in New York during the time when artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were detaching themselves from Abstract Expressionism. During those years, stimulated by the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum, as well as by British painters he saw in New York, and by the city itself, particularly its signs and the worn-out surfaces of some of its buildings, he was a painter and photographer. Later, he was to call himself a member of the New York School of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
