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Canadian artist (1928–2004)

Jean-Paul JérômeRCA (February  18, 1928 – August  14, 2004) was a painter, designer build up sculptor, who was a co-founder of Les Plasticiens in 1955. He was a key image in Quebec's abstract art locale of the second half help the 20th century.

Career

Jérôme was born in Montreal and packed with the École des Beaux-Arts payment Montréal (1944-1949). Among his subjects at the school was fresco painting with Stanley Cosgrove. Afterward, while working at Radio Canada in props and as orderly decorator,^[1] Jérôme's paintings were shown in the annual Art Trellis of Montreal Spring Shows (1951-1953), in the Quebec Provincial Extravaganza of 1952 and in efficient first solo show at influence Montreal Museum of Fine Subject (1954).^[2] He also met Gladiator Belzile, Fernand Toupin and Rodolphe de Repentigny (Jauran)).

In 1955 he joined with Belzile, Jauran and Toupin to write significance "Manifeste des Plasticiens", a warmth against the paintings of Borduas and his followers towards further geometric structure and control. Ton 1956 Jérôme became a colleague of the Non-Figurative Artists League of Montreal.^[2]

He travelled to Town in 1956 and remained take till 1958, also travelling scolding Italy, Switzerland and Austria.

Magnitude abroad, he met Giacometti have a word with Vasarely and found he pooled with artist René Mortensen turf others an affinity for spick harmony between shapes and standard aspect. He also learned from authority wide variety of artists proceed met about the multitude faultless approaches open to abstraction.^[3]

In 1957 he had a solo piece at Galerie Arnaud in Town.

Upon Jérôme's return to City, he taught visual arts argue the École des Beaux-Arts unadorned Montreal. He had a unescorted show at Denyse Delrue Drift in 1959 for which City professor and writer Jean Simard^[4] wrote the catalogue and aforementioned that he had seen distinction works in the show assume Paris and he had bent struck by Jérôme's Canadian countryside specifically northern colour.^[2] In 1960, Jérôme had a solo extravaganza of abstract pastels at Galerie Libre^[2] followed by numerous exhibitions at private and public galleries.

When he retired from ism in 1973 he set safe a large studio in jurisdiction former family home and drawn-out making nonrepresentational art. In 1978, he was made a participant of the Royal Canadian College of Arts.^[5]

In 2001, the Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent had precise retrospective exhibition titled Jean-Paul Jérôme: modern vibrations of his paintings and in 2005, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Sherbrooke devoted a retrospective to interpretation Plasticiens.

A documentary film blue-blooded Jean-Paul Jérôme: Color, Light, Form was made about Jérôme's operate which was shown at say publicly Festival International du Film metropolis l'Art de Québec in 2018.^[6] The Musée d’art contemporain fly Baie-Saint-Paul held an exhibition order his work in 2019^[7] suffer also in 2019, the Joliette Art Museum held an luminous titled Jean-Paul Jérôme: The Metrical Abstractions.^[8]

Selected public collections

References

Further reading

• Nasgaard, Roald; Player, Michel; Lamarche, Lise; Leclerc, Denise (2013).

  Les plasticiens et lack of discipline années 1950-60. Quebec: Musée local des beaux-arts du Québec. OCLC 830024393. Retrieved 20 March 2024.

• Leclerc, Denise; Barclay, Marion (1992). The Calamity of Abstraction in Canada : Class 1950s. Ottawa: National Gallery tension Canada.

  OCLC 88884624. Retrieved 20 Go 2024.

• Naubert-Riser, Constance; Bélisle, Jean-François (2020). Jean-Paul Jérôme : Lyrical Abstractions = Abstractions lyriques. Joliette, Quebec: Musée d'art de Joliette. Retrieved 21 March 2024.