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==External links==
==External links==
=== Images and galleries ===
Other works of his include:
* [http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_work_e.jsp?iartistid=599 Gallery] from the Canadian government's [http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/ Cybermuse] project.
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=7768 Self portrait]'' (1940)
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=7768 Self portrait]'' (1940)
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=41993 Abstraction No. 7]'' (1942)
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=41993 Abstraction No. 7]'' (1942)
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=11108 The Circular Pass, Nest of Aeroplanes]'' (1950)
* ''[http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=11108 The Circular Pass, Nest of Aeroplanes]'' (1950)
* ''[http://www.ago.net/info/collection/work.cfm?work_id=116 3 + 3 + 2]'' (1956)
* ''[http://www.ago.net/info/collection/work.cfm?work_id=116 3 + 3 + 2]'' (1956)

=== Written works ===
* The famous [http://www.dantaylor.com/pages/refusglobal.html lead manifesto of the ''Refus Global''], translated in English. Also available: the [http://www.dantaylor.com/pages/frenchrefusglobal.html original French version].

=== Information ===
* [http://www.godardgallery.com/borduas.htm Biography] from the [http://www.godardgallery.com/ Mira Godard Gallery].
* [http://www.mnba.qc.ca/collection/moderne.asp?page=moderne02.htm Short biography] from the [[Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec]]
* [http://www.canadians.ca/more/profiles/b/b_paul_emile_borduas.htm Very short biography] from [http://www.canadians.ca/ canadians.ca].
* [http://citzine.ca/stuff.php?lng=e&sub=2&cid=15 Biography] from the Canadian government's [http://citzine.ca/ citzine magazine].
* [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/milne/borduas.html Biography] from the [http://collections.ic.gc.ca/milne/ Eleanor Milne album].

=== Criticism and interpretation ===
* [http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/artists/paul_emile_bourdas.html Paul-Émile Borduas and the Rise of Abstract Art] from [[Mount Allison University]]. Also available [http://www.mta.ca/faculty/arts/canadian_studies/francais/realites/guide/artistique/paul_emile_borduas.html in French].





[[Category:Painters|Borduas, Paul-Emile]]
[[Category:Painters|Borduas, Paul-Emile]]

Revision as of 18:03, 29 July 2004

Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was a Canadian painter known for his abstract paintings.

Borduas was born in Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice to Ozias Leduc, a church decorator. Leduc gave Borduas a basic artististic training, teaching him how to restore and decorate churches. In 1923 he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, which he followed up by studying in Paris from 1928 to 1930.

He began painting abstracts in 1941, becoming more interested in the act of painting rather than the subject matter. He and some of his students became known as the Automatistes for their attempts to paint "automatically".

In 1955 he moved back to Paris where he died of a heart attack in 1960.

His most famous work is the painting L'etoile noire (Black Star) composed of a white background and dabs of black paint.

Images and galleries

Written works

Information

Criticism and interpretation