Jean Paul Lemieux

Jean Paul Lemieux , born with Quebec on November 18th, 1904 in Quebec and deceased on December 7th, 1990 in Quebec with Quebec, is a Artist-painter Québécois.

Work

The work of Lemieux can be divided into three periods: the period known as “primitive”, the period known as “traditional” (by far most known) and the “late” period known as, marked by the anguish and the fear vis-a-vis the nuclear threat.

The atmosphere of incommunicability is characteristic of the traditional fabrics of Lemieux and translated human insulation vis-a-vis a all-powerful nature. Its solidified characters, impressed melancholy seem to await something which finally would break the loneliness of the heart.

Canadian painter of importance, it is little known out of North America. Its works however were exposed in several international museums.

This last has a monument in its memory in its birthplace, Quebec.

Honors

Quotations on Jean Paul Lemieux

  • “ Jean Paul Lemieux painted paintings whose capacity of attraction was greeted by an undeniable popular success and critical. But beyond the apparent charm of certain subjects, there is the course moving by the painter of big spaces, people of North, the Québécois collective heart shared between the nostalgia of passed and the unknown factors of the future. ” (John R. Porter, historian of art and Managing director of the National museum of the fine arts of Quebec since 1993)

  • “ the work of Jean Paul Lemieux, if particular and personal that it is, does not remain about it less the best introduction, most precise, most exact, rêveuse and most poetic with our country, immense and deserted, inhabited, die, die by creatures testing the life and death, in the astonishment of the first days of the world. The heart exposed, without fault, in its irrefutable obviousness. ” (Anne Hébert)

External notes and bonds

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