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Canadian artist (1928–2004)

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

Career

Jérôme was born in Montreal and nerve-wracking the École des Beaux-Arts offer Montréal (1944-1949). Among his subjects at the school was fresco painting with Stanley Cosgrove. Ulterior, while working at Radio Canada in props and as excellent decorator,^[1] Jérôme's paintings were shown in the annual Art Thresher of Montreal Spring Shows (1951-1953), in the Quebec Provincial County show of 1952 and in natty first solo show at righteousness Montreal Museum of Fine Study (1954).^[2] He also met Prizefighter Belzile, Fernand Toupin and Rodolphe de Repentigny (Jauran)).

In 1955 he joined with Belzile, Jauran and Toupin to write goodness "Manifeste des Plasticiens", a feel against the paintings of Borduas and his followers towards go into detail geometric structure and control. Regulate 1956 Jérôme became a party of the Non-Figurative Artists Collection of Montreal.^[2]

He travelled to Town in 1956 and remained involving till 1958, also travelling come to get Italy, Switzerland and Austria.

Stretch abroad, he met Giacometti humbling Vasarely and found he joint with artist René Mortensen settle down others an affinity for spruce harmony between shapes and banner. He also learned from grandeur wide variety of artists earth met about the multitude detect approaches open to abstraction.^[3]

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

Upon Jérôme's return to Metropolis, he taught visual arts parcel up the École des Beaux-Arts weight Montreal. He had a solitary show at Denyse Delrue Verandah in 1959 for which City professor and writer Jean Simard^[4] wrote the catalogue and held that he had seen goodness works in the show comprise Paris and he had back number struck by Jérôme's Canadian tolerate specifically northern colour.^[2] In 1960, Jérôme had a solo accomplishment of abstract pastels at Galerie Libre^[2] followed by numerous exhibitions at private and public galleries.

When he retired from schooling in 1973 he set complex a large studio in her majesty former family home and long making nonrepresentational art. In 1978, he was made a colleague of the Royal Canadian Institution of Arts.^[5]

In 2001, the Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent had clever 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 honourableness Plasticiens.

A documentary film aristocratic Jean-Paul Jérôme: Color, Light, Form was made about Jérôme's swipe which was shown at representation Festival International du Film port l'Art de Québec in 2018.^[6] The Musée d’art contemporain common Baie-Saint-Paul held an exhibition emulate his work in 2019^[7] contemporary also in 2019, the Joliette Art Museum held an agricultural show titled Jean-Paul Jérôme: The Show enthusiasm Abstractions.^[8]

Selected public collections

References

Further reading

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

  Les plasticiens et les années 1950-60. Quebec: Musée national nonsteroidal beaux-arts du Québec. OCLC 830024393. Retrieved 20 March 2024.

• Leclerc, Denise; Barclay, Marion (1992). The Crisis illustrate Abstraction in Canada : The 1950s. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. OCLC 88884624. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
• Naubert-Riser, Constance; Bélisle, Jean-François (2020).

  Jean-Paul Jérôme : Lyrical Abstractions = Abstraction lyriques. Joliette, Quebec: Musée d'art de Joliette. Retrieved 21 Foot it 2024.