Louise Robert

Last updated
Louise Robert
Born (1941-12-13) December 13, 1941 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Known for Painter

Louise Robert (born 1941) [1] is a Canadian painter who uses writing in her work.

Contents

Life and work

Louise Robert was born in Montreal, Quebec. [1] She is a pharmacist by training [2] and a self-taught artist who paints by delving into the paint of her canvas. [3] Robert incorporates writing into many of her works, a process she continues to explore. [3] Critics say her work shows the influence of surrealistic automatic writing. [4]

Robert had her first solo exhibition in Montreal in 1969. [5] She has been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally since the 1970s. In 1983–1984, her work was shown in a solo show at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris and at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Bruxelles. In 2020, her exhibition titled Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry was held at the Musée d'art de Joliette. [3] Her work is included in many group shows and private and public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada, [6] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Musée d'art de Joliette. [2]

She lives and works in Montreal. [1]

Notable collections

Further reading

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jana Sterbak</span> Canadian artist

Jana Sterbak is a Canadian artist best known for her conceptual sculptures that are made about and in relation to the body.

Claude Tousignant is a Canadian artist. Tousignant is considered to be an important contributor to the development of geometric abstraction in Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fernand Leduc</span> Canadian artist (1916–2014)

Fernand Leduc was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene in the 1940s and 1950s. During his 50-year career, Leduc participated in many expositions in Canada and France. He was born in Viauville, Montreal, Quebec.

Henry Saxe is a Canadian artist who creates sculpture, painting and drawing.

Serge Lemoyne was a Canadian artist from Quebec. He worked as a performance artist as well as creating paintings, assemblages and prints.

Fernand Toupin was a Québécois abstract painter best known as a member of the avant-garde movement Les Plasticiens. His work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Alain Paiement is a Canadian artist. His work is mainly made from photography in form of installations, sculptures, and photomontage. His themes are related to geography, topography and architecture and mainly concerned by the construction of vision. A photo of the French artist Pierre Estable's apartment titled "Living Chaos" has been exhibited at the Galerie Clark from May 10 to June 17, 2001.

BGL is a Canadian artist collective composed of Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière. The artist collective have been active since 1996 since completing their studies together at Laval University in Québec City, Canada.

Nancy Petry is a Canadian artist known for innovation within the field of painting, photography, film and performance art. As one of the first Canadian artists to paint in the style of lyrical abstraction, her work was featured at the Commonwealth Institute, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and in a National Gallery of Canada touring exhibition. She was also instrumental in establishing the Association des graveurs du Québec and contributed to the success of the Montreal alternative art cooperative, Véhicule Art. In 2015 the "Nancy Petry Award" was instituted.

Peter Krausz is a Romanian-born Canadian artist. Throughout his career, he worked within the fields of painting, drawing, installation, and photography and, since 1970, exhibited in museums and galleries across Canada, the United States, and Europe. He is best known for large-scale landscape paintings of the Mediterranean.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louis-Pierre Bougie</span> Canadian painter and printmaker (1946–2021)

Louis-Pierre Bougie was a Canadian painter and printmaker specialized in engraving and etching. He developed his knowledge of intaglio techniques at Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris, where he worked for fifteen years, and through travel and study in France, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Finland, and New York. His work is regularly shown in Canadian, American, and European galleries, and is represented in major public and private collections, notably in Québec and New York. Bougie was considered Québec's foremost engraver for the depth and consistency of his work. He died from pneumonia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claire Beaugrand-Champagne</span> Canadian documentary photographer

Claire Beaugrand-Champagne is a Canadian documentary photographer. She is known for her socially engaged work and, having started her career in 1970, is considered the first female press photographer in Quebec. She was a member of the Groupe d'action photographique (GAP) alongside Michel Campeau, Gabor Szilasi, Roger Charbonneau et Pierre Gaudard

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard-Max Tremblay</span> Canadian artist and photographer

Richard-Max Tremblay is a Canadian artist and photographer. Known for painting and photographic portraits, Tremblay's artistic approach is described as "a dialogue between two media, photography and painting". He is the recipient of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts' 2015 RCA Trust Award, the 2003 Prix Louis-Comtois, and, as cinematographer of Gugging, the 1996 Special Jury Prize, International Festival of Films on Art and Pedagogy. Tremblay's work is found in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Musée d’art de Joliette, the City of Montreal and the Canada Council for the Arts' Art Bank.

Dominique Blain is a Canadian artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. Her work incorporates photography, installation and sculpture. She explores political themes in her art such as war, racism and slavery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lise Gervais</span> Canadian painter and sculptor

Lise Gervais (1933–1998) was a Canadian abstract painter and sculptor. She was president of the Conseil des Artistes Peintres du Quebec in 1983 and 1984.

Irène Legendre was a Canadian-American painter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cynthia Girard-Renard</span> Canadian artist

Cynthia Girard-Renard, also known as Cynthia Girard, is a Canadian artist.

Marion Wagschal is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the Holocaust and to her own personal history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Viger</span> Canadian sculptor

Louise Viger was a Canadian sculptor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edmund Alleyn</span> Canadian artist (1931-2004)

Edmund Alleyn had an art career that underwent many stylistic changes. He explored various styles of painting including abstraction, narrative figuration, technology and pop art, as well as different media. Citics feel that his inability to be categorized marks him as contemporary. Even more important, they say that he helped remove excessive compartmentalization from art practice.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ROBERT, Louise - Le Delarge -Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains". Le Delarge (in French). Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Compter le temps de Louise Robert à l'Espace musée Québecor". www.quebecor.com. Quebecor, 2019. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  3. 1 2 3 "Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry". www.museejoliette.org. Musée d'art de Joliette. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  4. 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
  5. Loren Ruth Lerner; Mary F. Williamson (1991). Art Et Architecture Au Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 92. ISBN   978-0-8020-5856-0.
  6. "Louise Robert". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
  7. "Nº 78-45" (PDF). Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Retrieved 11 December 2018.