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André Biéler at the Crossroads of Canadian Painting

• Auteur : David Karel
• Discipline : Arts et lettres
• 210 pages

• Décembre 2004

• ISBN : 2-7637-8066-0

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Résumé :

Born in Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1896, educated in French in Geneva and in Paris, then in English in Montreal from 1908, André Biéler stands at the crossroads where the Old World meets the New. After the First World War he was determined to reinvigorate pastoral painting. To this end, he went to live in Sainte-Famille on Île d'Orléans. He later painted in Saint-Urbain (Charlevoix County) and finally settled in Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentians. He was a remarkable innovator in both form and technique, applying the language of modernism to the tried and true subjects of artistic Regionalism. With his talent for leadership, he organized the first national artists' meeting, the Conference of Canadian Artists, in Kingston (1941). In 1936 he embarked on a teaching career at Queens's University in Kingston, but continued to paint scenes of traditional life in Quebec for the rest of his life. He died in Kingston in 1989.


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Biographie :

David Karel

David Karel, professeur d’histoire de l’art à l’Université Laval à Québec depuis 1973, poursuit l’exploration de l’art au Québec qu’il entamait en 1986 avec la publication du catalogue d’exposition Horatio Walker au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Il est l’auteur, entre autres, d’André Biéler ou le choc des cultures (2003), d’Edmond-J. Massicotte, illustrateur (2005) et coauteur de Marcel Baril. Figure énigmatique de l’art québécois (2002).

David Karel, professor of art history at the Laval University in Quebec since 1973, has been exploring Canadian Regionalism since his exhibition of the works of Horatio Walker (1986) at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. He is the author of the Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord (1992) and co-author of Marcel Baril. Figure énigmatique de l'art québécois (2002). His Peinture et société au Québec 1. 1603-1948 is forthcoming.

 

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