Marcelle Ferron

Marcelle Ferron (January 29th 1924, Louiseville, Quebec - November 19th 2001), was a Québécois painter and a glass artist specialized in the Vitrail. She was an important figure on the scene of the contemporary art of Quebec.

Biography

Born with Louiseville with the Quebec, it was rather early a member of the movement of art Automatistes, founded by Paul-Emile Borduas. It signed a proclamation, the total Refus, a decisive event for the cultural scene of the Quebec in 1948. However, it exposed with them only tardily, starting from the exposure " Stages of the vivant" 1951.

In 1953, it settles with Paris, where it works during thirteen years in the Dessin and painting, while being introduced with the art of the Vitrail, thanks to which it will become more known.

One of its most famous stained glasses is that of the subway station Field-of-March of Montreal. It was one of the first works nonfigurative to being installed in the subway. By defying the didactic style present of other works of this period, it highlighted an important variation in the public art of the Métro of Montreal. This stained glass is seen like a denunciation of the artistic policies of Robert Lapalme, director artistic of the time, just like a torch for the Automatism.

Other works can be seen at the station Vendôme, the Hôpital Holy-Justine, and the head office of OIAC in Montreal; in the Place of the Bearing with Gatineau in Quebec and the court of Granby in Quebec.

It is the sister of the writers Jacques (1921 - 1985) and Madeleine Ferron (1922 -) and of the doctor and humanistic Paul Ferron (1926 -10 August 2007).

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