Related Research Articles
Paul-Émile Borduas was a Québec painter 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. Borduas had a profound impact on the development of the arts and of thought, both in the province of Quebec and in Canada.
Jean-Paul Riopelle, was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter to attain widespread international recognition.
The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec.
David Blatherwick (born 1960 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian artist and educator.
Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, R.C.A., was a French Canadian painter, draughtsman, engraver and illustrator, from the province of Quebec. He is well known for his landscape paintings of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec.
Stanley Lewis was a Jewish Canadian sculptor, photographer and an internationally renowned art teacher born on March 28, 1930 in Montreal. His works are held in many public collections such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Quebec, and the National Gallery of Canada, as well as in numerous private collections. Since the 1950, Lewis' sculptures and lithographic works have been displayed in the galleries and museums around the world in cities such as Paris, Florence, New York City, and Mexico City.
France Jodoin is a Canadian contemporary artist known for her maritime scenes. Painted in a semi-abstract style, her work is a modern interpretation of European Romanticism. Her work is found in Quebec museums, and in galleries in Canada, France and the United States.
Valentin Gallery is an art gallery in Quebec. Created in 1934, it was first called "L'Art français" and had its start on Laurier Street in Montreal. Owners Lucienne (1900-1992) and Louis (1890-1956) Lange initially showed works by French artists. By the 1940s they were offering art by Marc-Aurèle Fortin and Philip Surrey. In 1975, Jean-Pierre Valentin purchased the gallery. The gallery moved to its present Sherbrooke Street location later and changed the name to Valentin Gallery.
Nancy Petry, RCA, 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.
Nathalie Bondil, who holds both Canadian and French citizenship, has been Director General and Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 2007. She has worked at the museum since 1999, and is the first woman to be the museum's director.
Susan G. Scott RCA (1949) is a Canadian artist known for contemporary figurative painting. Her work is found in national and international public collections including the Canada Council for the Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Collection du Fonds régional d'art contemporain d’Île-de-France in Paris, Canada - Israel Cultural Foundation in Jerusalem and Houston Baptist University in Texas. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2013.
John A. Schweitzer, RCA, is a Canadian artist known for mixed-media collage incorporating text. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, first place at the international exhibition Schrift und Bild in der modernen Kunst in 2004, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from The University of Western Ontario in 2011. He was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2003 and to the Ontario Society of Artists (OAS) in 2006. His work is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of History, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Glenbow Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, The Rooms Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Diane Landry (1958) is a Canadian contemporary artist. Landry is known for her kinetic sculptural works and performances that utilize light, shadow, sound and movement.
Marie-Louise Blanche Bolduc was a Canadian folk artist living in Quebec.
Milly Ristvedt, also known as Milly Ristvedt-Handerek, is a Canadian abstract painter. Ristvedt lives and paints in Ontario, where she is represented by the Oeno Gallery. A monograph covering a ten-year retrospective of her work, Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade, was published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 1979. In 2017, a second monograph was published by Oeno Gallery which included a survey of paintings from 1964 through to 2016, Milly Ristvedt, Colour and Meaning : an incomplete palette.
Jeanne Leblanc Rhéaume was a Canadian artist.
Lyne Lapointe is a French-Canadian artist, born in 1957 in Montreal, Quebec. Her work ranges from site-specific installations (1981-1995), found-objects, drawings, and paintings, with focuses on art history, museology, botany, and feminism. She has exhibited extensively in Montreal, Quebec, and New York City, New York, and across Canada. She now lives and works in Mansonville, Quebec.
Lise Gervais was a Canadian abstract painter and sculptor. She was president of the Conseil des Artistes Peintres du Quebec in 1983 and 1984.
Isabelle Hayeur is a visual artist from Montréal, Quebec. She studied Fine Art at Université du Québec à Montréal where she received her bachelor's degree in 1996 and a masters in 2002.
References
- ↑ "Yechel Gagnon reçoit le prix du CALQ – Créatrice de l’année en Montérégie"
