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{{short description|Canadian artist, painter and engraver (born 1964)}}
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| caption = Jean Gaudreau in his studio in 2015
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| birth_place = [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]]
| birth_place = [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]]
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| education = Georges Gogardi<br>Michel Labbé
| education = Georges Gogardi<br>Michel Labbé
| alma_mater = [[Laval University]]
| alma_mater = [[Laval University]]
| known_for = Painter
| known_for = Painting
| movement = [[Automatistes|Automatisme]]<br>[[Abstract Art]]
| movement = [[Automatistes|Automatisme]]<br>[[Abstract Art]]
| awards = ''[[Le Moulin à images]]''<br>Cirque du Soleil
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'''Jean Gaudreau''' (born May 27, 1964) is a Canadian [[artist]], painter, and [[engraver]].


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==Biography==
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'''Jean Gaudreau''' (born May 27, 1964) is a Canadian artist, painter and [[engraver]] in the province's capital ([[Capitale-Nationale]]<ref>[[Jean Gaudreau#Bernier|Bernier 2002]], p.&nbsp;218–219</ref>).
Gaudreau was born in [[Quebec City|Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.]] At the age of 10, he was offered the chance to study drawing at the ''Séminaire des Pères Maristes''.<ref>"[http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ Séminaire des Pères Maristes]"&nbsp;{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926012014/http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/|date=September 26, 2013}}&nbsp;</ref> As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way," the ''Mezzotint,'' as well as the importance of [[geometry]] in drawing.

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In 2008, he was shown as one of the figures of Quebec's [[contemporary art]] scene by [[Robert Lepage]] during the celebrations for the [[400th anniversary of Quebec City|400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec]] City. In his animated film ''[[:fr:Le_Moulin_à_images|Le Moulin à images]]''<ref>{{Cite web |last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca |first=Zone Arts- |title=Le Moulin à images : un rendez-vous spectaculaire avec l'histoire |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1107781/moulin-images-spectacle-histoire-quebec-anniversaire-archives |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=Radio-Canada.ca |language=fr-ca}}</ref>,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Perron|first=Alexandra|date=September 9, 2009|title=La couleur de Jean Gaudreau sur les silos de la Bunge|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/200909/08/01-899789-la-couleur-de-jean-gaudreau-sur-les-silos-de-la-bunge.php|journal=La Presse}}</ref> Lepage projected images of artworks by Gaudreau next to works from [[Jean Paul Lemieux|Jean-Paul Lemieux]], Martin Bureau, [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]] and [[Alfred Pellan]], among others, on grain silos located in [[Anse au Foulon]], in Quebec City's old port.

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== Biography ==
Gaudreau was born in [[Quebec City]]. At 10 years old, his mother, Claudia Tremblay, a [[Plastic arts|plastic art]] teacher, musician and painter, entrusted her son to Sister Alice Pruneau<ref>named the "nun-artist" unique in the History of art in Quebec &nbsp;and maybe even in &nbsp;Canada, Sister [http://www.soeursdubonpasteur.ca/ Alice Pruneau]&nbsp;{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012142842/http://soeursdubonpasteur.ca/|date=October 12, 2016}} (Sister Sainte-Alice-de-Blois), follows the teachings of &nbsp;[[Jean Paul Lemieux]]&nbsp; at l'[[École des beaux-arts de Québec]] (School for Fine Arts) between 1940 and 1945. The paintings she created until the end of the 1960s, her "Modern Arts " period, are the witness of her natural virtuosity. Sister Alice uses art as a language and cannot help but draw.&nbsp; Her artworks are spiritual exercises, eloquent witnesses of her intellectual and spiritual approach. Amélie Leclerc, Responsable du patrimoine, [http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=160969&type=bien#.WOe881M1--s Maison généralice]{{dead link|date=May 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</ref> to teach him the basics of drawing, at the ''Séminaire des Pères Maristes''<ref>"[http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ Séminaire des Pères Maristes]"&nbsp;{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926012014/http://www.spmaristes.qc.ca/seminaire/historique/ |date=September 26, 2013 }}&nbsp;</ref> in Quebec City. As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way'’ the ''Mezzotint'' as well as the importance of [[geometry]] in drawing. Indeed, Pruneau teaches him the rules of [[Perspective (graphical)|perspective]], the [[vanishing point]]s as well as the [[Golden triangle (mathematics)|Golden Triangle]].&nbsp; The painter's mother also played a dominant role in the apprenticeship of her son's plastic practices. She herself would become [[Jean Palardy]]'s student.

=== Between Tradition and Modernity (1974–1985) ===
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When he was 12 years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.<ref>Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016</ref> His first subjects were the [[stevedore]]s, the boats, the docks, the river and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's [[headland]], the [[cap Diamant]]. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside [[landscape painter]]s,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/paysages-ruraux|title=Paysages ruraux|last1=Domon|first1=Gérard|last2=Ruiz|first2=Julie|publisher=PUM|year=2015|isbn=9782760634817|location=Montréal, Québec|language=fr}}</ref> the contours of the old buildings. The [[Château Frontenac]], the [[Séminaire de Québec]], [[Édifice Price|Price Building]], are some favourite subjects of the teenager.

=== Isle-aux-Coudres ===
Until 1985, the paintings or rural landscapes in [[Charlevoix]] were a curiosity item for denizens and tourists of [[L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Quebec|L'Isle-aux-Coudres]]. The summers of the artist's youth were spent painting landscapes and his paintings were sold outside a hotel of the island. It was a significant period for the teenager, who regularly visited [[Jean Paul Lemieux]]. The older man was always ready to underline to Gaudreau the importance of drawing in the practice of painting.&nbsp;"At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presents his first solo exhibition in an art gallery, and he has since been seen regularly in solo or group exhibitions. Hundreds of his paintings were acquired by private or public collections, and several mural painting experiments will give way to more important commissions.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|location=Québec|pages=9|language=fr}}</ref>"&nbsp;

== The Artist's Approach ==
Painter, sculptor and engraver, the artist explores several technical means and approaches them not separately like so many individuated&nbsp;vehicles of expression, but rather like a gathering of manners, a single whole body. The artist borrows his iconography from the circus's syntax, the grammatical codes of dance and the plastic arts' vocabulary.

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"Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work. In his compositions, the artist plays with elaborate staging, where characters borrowed from the circus and the dance world, sometimes moving other times remaining still, blend into various forms to create an open and animated space. Colour, thus far confined to a supporting role, becomes in this series, an essential foundation of the ensemble, without, however, falling into a purely decorative dimension. A particularly effective accomplice, it acts as a trigger."<ref>{{Cite book|title=La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960|last=Bernier|first=Robert|publisher=Les éditions de l'homme|date=October 2002|isbn=2-7619-1566-6|location=Montréal, Québec|pages=218–219|language=fr}}</ref>

The use of the epithet multidisciplinary to introduce this creator, merges with the appropriate cross-disciplinary one. Gaudreau sculpts the raw matter in a diligent manner, a rigour born of a workshop experience, bending his back, kneading the surfaces and twisting the supports. This labour demonstrates his mastering of colour combinations, impressionist gesture and, above all, his careful attention towards the planarity of the canvas. The artist cannot stand the lightness of emptiness, or the mundane of everyday life. The large canvases shown in 2003 in the [[Cirque du Soleil]]'s headquarters bear witness to this; loaded surfaces, busy, choked, bruised and nervously piled.

"Through M-515, Jean Gaudreau has etched the profile of a chalky face marred by the end of the day glowing tears on the crimson hue of a quivering sea. A long line stretched between two moribund abandoned in a vacuum, toggles this head in the nocturnal strangeness of the world.<ref>Normand Biron, President Emeritus of the International Association of Art Critics."</ref>

The thick strokes of blue, red or yellow are childhood memories, landscape from within, pieces of history, in short, Quebec City-specific colours. "If, like says artist Leng Hong, "painting the body's landscapes or painting the skin of dreams is always sketching our interior landscape," then Gaudreau's interior landscape is rather fascinating. The elements of his work, parts taken from the universal subconscious, assemble deftly on the canvas like a puzzle."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bussières|first=Isabelle|date=Summer 2000|title=Jean Gaudreau, Concilier l'Inconciliable|url=http://jeangaudreau.com/net/english/2000-Vie%20des%20arts.html|journal=Vie des Arts|language=fr|volume=179}}</ref>


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When he was twelve years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.<ref>Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016</ref> His first subjects were the [[stevedore]]s, the boats, the docks, the river, and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's [[headland]], the [[cap Diamant]]. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside [[landscape painter]]s,<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/paysages-ruraux|title=Paysages ruraux|last1=Domon|first1=Gérard|last2=Ruiz|first2=Julie|publisher=PUM|year=2015|isbn=9782760634817|location=Montréal, Québec|language=fr}}</ref> the contours of the old buildings.
He constantly revisits, almost with obstinacy, this welcoming and volcanic maelstrom, by stacking up material layers, painting gestures, delicate sketches, violent strokes, controlled soft hedges, visual oxymorons characterized by fine droplets or by harsh movements, articulated by a swift arm.


As a teenager, Gaudreau regularly visited [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], who taught him the importance of drawing in the practice of painting. At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presented his first solo exhibition in an art gallery.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|location=Québec|pages=9|language=fr}}</ref>
"He is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world. Firstly, because he has a lot of grits and boldness. Also, and especially because he earns a living with his painting, which is in itself quite exceptional. He has surrounded himself with patrons, collectors and art enthusiasts. His artwork travels to Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and New York galleries. He earns a living with his art, but let us be clear. He has chosen this frugal and precarious way of life like so many other creators. Jean Gaudreau defines his painting as intuitive. His approach favours emotion, subjectivity, even the expression of the 'unconscious.' He is also inspired by dance and movement; his painting is therefore very gestural."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Côté|first=Nathalie|date=September 19, 1998|title=La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/1998/11/19/la-transcendance-des-taches-coup-de-fougue/|journal=Voir|language=fr}}</ref>


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Gaudreau later started experimenting with [[copper]] with the help of remains from the South turret of the Château Frontenac.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Champagne|first=Marjorie|date=July 2, 2014|title=Jean Gaudreau : confidences en atelier|url=http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116174755/http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|archive-date=January 16, 2017|access-date=January 14, 2017|website=lafabriqueculturelle.tv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Goutier|first=Claire|date=September 16, 2016|title=L'ancienne toiture du Château Frontenac comme offrande artistique|url=http://bazzart.biz/lancienne-toiture-du-chateau-frontenac-comme-offrande-artistique/|journal=Bazzart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Genest|first=Catherine|date=June 19, 2014|title=ERVUIC : La deuxième vie du cuivre verdi|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/2014/06/19/jean-gaudreau-ervuic-la-deuxieme-vie-du-cuivre-verdi/|journal=Voir}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Johanne|date=February 9, 2016|title=Jean Gaudreau, artiste multidisciplinaire|url=http://www.magazineprestige.com/news/post/soulignons-lexcellence/en-page-couverture-jean-gaudreau-artiste-multidisciplinaire/3186|journal=Prestige|issn=1205-6707}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Desloges|first=Josiane|date=June 27, 2014|title=Jean Gaudreau : de pigments et de cuivre|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/201406/26/01-4779240-jean-gaudreau-de-pigments-et-de-cuivre.php|journal=Le Soleil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nadeau|first=Pierre O.|date=September 22, 2012|title=Le cuivre du Château Frontenac sur les toiles de Jean Gaudreau|url=http://www.journaldequebec.com/2012/09/22/le-cuivre-du-chateau-frontenac-sur-les-toiles-de-jean-gaudreau|journal=Journal de Québec}}</ref>
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"The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts. Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding. The predominant gestural as well as the intentionally less than finished and more primary aspect of his painting constitute trials at forging a personal style."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Laurent|first=Juliette|year=1995|title=Jean Gaudreau ou la fougue de peindre|url=http://www.erudit.org/culture/va1081917/va1140387/53409ac.pdf|journal=Vie des Arts|series=39|volume=161|pages=52–53|via=érudit}}</ref>


== Second life ==
==Reactions==
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According to Robert Bernier, "Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work."<ref>{{Cite book|title=La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960|last=Bernier|first=Robert|publisher=Les éditions de l'homme|date=October 2002|isbn=2-7619-1566-6|location=Montréal, Québec|pages=218–219|language=fr}}</ref>
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Jean Gaudreau started his exploration of copper with the help of remains of the South turret of the Château Frontenac.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|title=Jean Gaudreau : confidences en atelier|last=Champagne|first=Marjorie|date=July 2, 2014|website=lafabriqueculturelle.tv|access-date=January 14, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116174755/http://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/1918/jean-gaudreau-confidences-en-atelier|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Goutier|first=Claire|date=September 16, 2016|title=L'ancienne toiture du Château Frontenac comme offrande artistique|url=http://bazzart.biz/lancienne-toiture-du-chateau-frontenac-comme-offrande-artistique/|journal=Bazzart}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Genest|first=Catherine|date=June 19, 2014|title=ERVUIC : La deuxième vie du cuivre verdi|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/2014/06/19/jean-gaudreau-ervuic-la-deuxieme-vie-du-cuivre-verdi/|journal=Voir}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Johanne|date=February 9, 2016|title=Jean Gaudreau, artiste multidisciplinaire|url=http://www.magazineprestige.com/news/post/soulignons-lexcellence/en-page-couverture-jean-gaudreau-artiste-multidisciplinaire/3186|journal=Prestige|issn=1205-6707}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Desloges|first=Josiane|date=June 27, 2014|title=Jean Gaudreau : de pigments et de cuivre|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/201406/26/01-4779240-jean-gaudreau-de-pigments-et-de-cuivre.php|journal=Le Soleil}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nadeau|first=Pierre O.|date=September 22, 2012|title=Le cuivre du Château Frontenac sur les toiles de Jean Gaudreau|url=http://www.journaldequebec.com/2012/09/22/le-cuivre-du-chateau-frontenac-sur-les-toiles-de-jean-gaudreau|journal=Journal de Québec}}</ref> After mastering the transformation technic of these pieces, that artist embedded them in his paintings thus giving them a second life.
Nathalie Côté has said "he is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Côté|first=Nathalie|date=September 19, 1998|title=La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue|url=https://voir.ca/arts-visuels/1998/11/19/la-transcendance-des-taches-coup-de-fougue/|journal=Voir|language=fr}}</ref>
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Juliette Laurent said, "The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts." Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding. The predominant gestural as well as the intentionally less than finished and more primary aspect of his painting constitute trials at forging a personal style."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Laurent|first=Juliette|year=1995|title=Jean Gaudreau ou la fougue de peindre|url=http://www.erudit.org/culture/va1081917/va1140387/53409ac.pdf|journal=Vie des Arts|series=39|volume=161|pages=52–53|via=érudit}}</ref>


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In 2008, Gaudreau was presented as one of the figures of Quebec's [[contemporary art]] scene by [[Robert Lepage]] during the celebrations for the [[400th anniversary of Quebec City|400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City]]. In his animated film ''[[:fr:Le Moulin à images|Le Moulin à images]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca|first=Zone Arts-|title=Le Moulin à images : un rendez-vous spectaculaire avec l'histoire|url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1107781/moulin-images-spectacle-histoire-quebec-anniversaire-archives|access-date=2022-09-03|website=Radio-Canada.ca|date=June 19, 2018 |language=fr-ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Perron|first=Alexandra|date=September 9, 2009|title=La couleur de Jean Gaudreau sur les silos de la Bunge|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts/expositions/200909/08/01-899789-la-couleur-de-jean-gaudreau-sur-les-silos-de-la-bunge.php|journal=La Presse}}</ref> Lepage projected images of artworks by Gaudreau next to works from [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], Martin Bureau, [[Jean-Paul Riopelle]], and [[Alfred Pellan]], among others, on grain silos located in [[Anse au Foulon]] in Quebec City's old port.
"By using a material out of the past—the copper—transforming it into a contemporary character, the artist explores what could be described as the point of metamorphosis of the medium, trying to answer questions such as 'What happens when these remains begin a new life?' ‘What happens when the past and the present become one and the same?' Asked about his choice of the iconography of the heart as subjects in his recent creation, Jean Gaudreau states: 'I have chosen the shape of the heart,&nbsp;timeless symbol of love, to express this transition between past and present. Past and presents are the two beats of a same heart.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau, Au cœur de nos vies|last=Zÿlbeck|publisher=MC Communication|year=2015|location=Québec|pages=3–4}}</ref>'"


== Video Documents ==
==Video documents==
* Belco, J: ''Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création'', 2010
* Belco, J: ''Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création'', 2010
* Lacerte, Louis: ''Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images'', 2014
* Lacerte, Louis: ''Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images'', 2014
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* Roberge, Josiane: ''Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux'', 201
* Roberge, Josiane: ''Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux'', 201


== Private and Public Collections ==
==Private and public collections==
* ''Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent''
* ''Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent''
* ''Cirque du Soleil''
* ''Cirque du Soleil''
* [[Québecor Média|Québécor Média]]
* [[Québecor Média|Québécor Média]]
* [[Loto-Québec|Loto Québec]]
* [[Loto-Québec]]
* Feel Europe Group
* Feel Europe Group
* [[Quebec City]]
* [[Quebec City]]
* [[Université Laval|&nbsp;Laval University]]
* [[Université Laval|Laval University]]
* [[Université de Sherbrooke|&nbsp;Sherbrooke University]]
* [[Université de Sherbrooke|Sherbrooke University]]
* [[Groupe TVA]]
* [[Groupe TVA]]
* [[Alcan|Alcan Canada]]
* [[Alcan]]
* [[Banque Toronto-Dominion|TD]] Bank
* [[Banque Toronto-Dominion|TD Bank]]
* Premier Tech
* Premier Tech
* [[Musée Laurier|Laurier]] Museum
* [[Musée Laurier|Laurier Museum]]


== References ==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
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== Bibliography ==
==Bibliography==
* {{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|series=Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective|location=Quebec|pages=9|language=fr}}
* {{Cite book|title=Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde|last=Robert|first=Guy|publisher=Éditions Malibu|year=1990|series=Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective|location=Quebec|pages=9|language=fr}}
* {{Cite book|title=Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor|last=Bélanger|first=Jacques|publisher=MC Communications|others=Photography, Simon Clark|year=2009|isbn=978-2-9806728-1-1|location=Quebec|language=fr, en|translator-last=Ratcliffe|translator-first=Abigail}}
* {{Cite book|title=Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor|last=Bélanger|first=Jacques|publisher=MC Communications|others=Photography, Simon Clark|year=2009|isbn=978-2-9806728-1-1|location=Quebec|language=fr, en|translator-last=Ratcliffe|translator-first=Abigail}}
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Latest revision as of 03:46, 29 October 2024

Jean Gaudreau
Jean Gaudreau in his studio in 2015
Born (1964-05-27) May 27, 1964 (age 60)
Quebec City, Quebec
EducationGeorges Gogardi
Michel Labbé
Alma materLaval University
Known forPainting
MovementAutomatisme
Abstract Art
AwardsLe Moulin à images
Cirque du Soleil

Jean Gaudreau (born May 27, 1964) is a Canadian artist, painter, and engraver.

Biography

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Gaudreau was born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. At the age of 10, he was offered the chance to study drawing at the Séminaire des Pères Maristes.[1] As a child, he learned the "old fashioned way," the Mezzotint, as well as the importance of geometry in drawing.

When he was twelve years old, Gaudreau painted genre art scenes in Quebec's old port.[2] His first subjects were the stevedores, the boats, the docks, the river, and in the background, the buildings on Quebec City's headland, the cap Diamant. He outlined, in the manner of the countryside landscape painters,[3] the contours of the old buildings.

As a teenager, Gaudreau regularly visited Jean Paul Lemieux, who taught him the importance of drawing in the practice of painting. At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presented his first solo exhibition in an art gallery.[4]

Gaudreau later started experimenting with copper with the help of remains from the South turret of the Château Frontenac.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Reactions

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According to Robert Bernier, "Chance encounters and the very spirit of his artistic production have led Gaudreau to associate, for many years, dance and performance art to his painting. Both by the themes he tackles and in the conception of the many events he put together, the body has become a central element of his work."[11]

Nathalie Côté has said "he is without a doubt, a singular figure of the Quebec visual arts world."[12]

Juliette Laurent said, "The brush strokes recall Riopelle, Pollock, Stella, Klimt and Ferron; some traces evoke the Automatists and the flights dear to the lyrical abstracts." Admittedly, the artist avails himself of a postmodernism that tends to integrate all streams as bare witnesses the presence of figurative and non-figurative elements, women with lascivious faces, sinuous lines and the juxtaposition of vibrant hues and gilding. The predominant gestural as well as the intentionally less than finished and more primary aspect of his painting constitute trials at forging a personal style."[13]

In 2008, Gaudreau was presented as one of the figures of Quebec's contemporary art scene by Robert Lepage during the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City. In his animated film Le Moulin à images,[14][15] Lepage projected images of artworks by Gaudreau next to works from Jean Paul Lemieux, Martin Bureau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Alfred Pellan, among others, on grain silos located in Anse au Foulon in Quebec City's old port.

Video documents

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  • Belco, J: Jean Gaudreau – Environnement de création, 2010
  • Lacerte, Louis: Jean Gaudreau – Moulin à images, 2014
  • Roberge, Josiane: Balise du Temps, 2015
  • Roberge, Josiane: Court métrage – Tambours flambeaux, 201

Private and public collections

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References

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  1. ^ "Séminaire des Pères Maristes" Archived September 26, 2013, at the Wayback Machine 
  2. ^ Jean Gaudreau, interview with Michaël Lachance, 2016
  3. ^ Domon, Gérard; Ruiz, Julie (2015). Paysages ruraux (in French). Montréal, Québec: PUM. ISBN 9782760634817.
  4. ^ Robert, Guy (1990). Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde (in French). Québec: Éditions Malibu. p. 9.
  5. ^ Champagne, Marjorie (July 2, 2014). "Jean Gaudreau : confidences en atelier". lafabriqueculturelle.tv. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  6. ^ Goutier, Claire (September 16, 2016). "L'ancienne toiture du Château Frontenac comme offrande artistique". Bazzart.
  7. ^ Genest, Catherine (June 19, 2014). "ERVUIC : La deuxième vie du cuivre verdi". Voir.
  8. ^ Martin, Johanne (February 9, 2016). "Jean Gaudreau, artiste multidisciplinaire". Prestige. ISSN 1205-6707.
  9. ^ Desloges, Josiane (June 27, 2014). "Jean Gaudreau : de pigments et de cuivre". Le Soleil.
  10. ^ Nadeau, Pierre O. (September 22, 2012). "Le cuivre du Château Frontenac sur les toiles de Jean Gaudreau". Journal de Québec.
  11. ^ Bernier, Robert (October 2002). La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960 (in French). Montréal, Québec: Les éditions de l'homme. pp. 218–219. ISBN 2-7619-1566-6.
  12. ^ Côté, Nathalie (September 19, 1998). "La Transcendance des taches : Coup de fougue". Voir (in French).
  13. ^ Laurent, Juliette (1995). "Jean Gaudreau ou la fougue de peindre" (PDF). Vie des Arts. 39. 161: 52–53 – via érudit.
  14. ^ ICI.Radio-Canada.ca, Zone Arts- (June 19, 2018). "Le Moulin à images : un rendez-vous spectaculaire avec l'histoire". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved September 3, 2022.
  15. ^ Perron, Alexandra (September 9, 2009). "La couleur de Jean Gaudreau sur les silos de la Bunge". La Presse.

Bibliography

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  • Robert, Guy (1990). Jean Gaudreau : expressivité dans un nouveau monde. Catalogue on the 1979–1990 retrospective (in French). Quebec: Éditions Malibu. p. 9.
  • Bélanger, Jacques (2009). Le pied au plancher / Feet on the Floor (in French and English). Translated by Ratcliffe, Abigail. Photography, Simon Clark. Quebec: MC Communications. ISBN 978-2-9806728-1-1.
  • Zÿlbeck (2015). Jean Gaudreau, au coeur de nos vies (in French and English). Translated by Millar, Christine. MC Communications.
  • Motulsky-Falardeau, Alexandre (2014). Jean Gaudreau, ERVIUC (in French and English). Translated by Ratcliffe, Abigail. MC Communications. ISBN 978-2-9806728-2-8.
  • Côté, Nathalie (2007). Jean Gaudreau : cycle de vie / Life Cycle. Cycle de vie, Parcours 1995–2007 (in French and English). Translated by Hamilton, Grant. Photography, Pierre Soulard. Quebec.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Bernier, Robert (2002). La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960. Montreal: Les éditions de l'homme. pp. 218–219. ISBN 2-7619-1566-6.
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