Claude Breeze , also known as Claude Herbert Breeze, and sometimes as C. Herbert (born 1938) is a

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figurative painter, known for paintings with raw, unsettling imagery. He is a

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, Canada.

Biography

Breeze had his first one-person show in 1965 in Vancouver when he showed his ''Lovers in a Landscape'' series. It received much acclaim: the ''Vancouver Sun'' compared him with

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. These fourteen paintings in the series have naked figures in some sort of combination to strip the skin off the sick 1960s, the artist said. His ''Sunday Afternoon (from an old American Photograph)'' (1965, Department of External Affairs Collection) was featured in the first issue of arts/canada in January 1967 by editor Barry Lord. In painting it, Breeze was inspired by a photograph in a University of British Columbia newspaper, The ''Ubyssey'', of a lynching in the United States. During the 1970s, Breeze painted a variety of subjects and styles, from landscape, regarded as a landscape of signs, to abstraction. In the early 1980s, Breeze`s love of martial arts and the orient led to a series of paintings and lithographs. (Each of the paintings had a wrapped weapon.) During the late 1980s and 1990s, Breeze used computer technology in his work. Breeze has exhibited his paintings in numerous solo and group shows around the world. His work is found in public, corporate and private collections, including Canada's

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. Among his works are several pieces of public art, including ''Spacing... Aerial Highways'', a 300-foot ceramic tile mural at Lawrence West subway station in Toronto. Breeze is a member of the

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in 1974. In 1978. he was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal in recognition of his work and his contributions to the visual arts in Canada.

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External links

Claude Breeze in the Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties archive
* University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. Claude Breeze fonds. https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/breeze.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Breeze, Claude 1938 births 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters 21st-century Canadian painters York University faculty Living people Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-century Canadian male artists