Paul-Emile Borduas

Paul-Emile Borduas (November 1st 1905, Saint-Hilaire, Quebec - February 22nd 1960, Paris, France) was a painter Québécois. Known for its Abstract art, it wrote (only) an artistic proclamation: Total Refusal which was published in 1948 (with the support of 15 co-signatories).

Biography

At the fifteen years age, he becomes the pupil of Ozias Leduc, which gave him a basic artistic formation, and taught to him to restore and decorate with the churches. In 1923, it is registered with the École of the fine arts of Montreal, then it continues its studies with Paris of 1928 to 1930.

It is in 1941 qu' it starts to carry out abstract works, becoming more interested by the act to paint that by the topics.

Professor with the School of the Piece of furniture of Montreal, it ties relations with people of his generation and the young painters who were going to become Automatistes.

In 1948, he writes the proclamation Total Refus , a severe criticism of the culture Canadian-Frenchwoman.

In 1953, it is exiled with New York where its artistic research could be done with complete freedom.

In 1955, it settles with Paris, where it works in company of Tristan Tzara. It will die out in 1960.

Anecdote

Paul, wire of Paul-Emile Borduas, in the film the Children of Total Refusal, tells this: “ 

- Older, I tried to return in contact with him… Bon. It is at twenty years. I wrote a letter. I had made a small sculpture. It was a flame, out of wood, but translucent. It was very small! I had tried to write, I had tried to write… Then all that, that led to the dustbins… Then when it received it… well five hours after… it had left! It was not for only I had sent the sculpture to him… I had greater time… before it knows it! But at the same time, I always thought that it knew it!

- What it knew what?

- How it was correct!

- It was correct why?

- For everyone!

- Ah!”

Works

He is not the only modern painter Canadian of the time (let us think inter alia of Clarence Gagnon and Jean-Paul Lemieux…) but it with its manner contributed much to the concept of artistic Modernité to the country.

Painter, it also liked the relief. He worked the colors by considering the materiality of painting.

Its most famous work is the black Star , gaining of posthumous a Guggenheim price, made up of small keys of black on a white zone.

Honors

  • Since 1977, the Price of Quebec in the fields of the visual Arts, of the Trades of art, the Architecture and the Design is called: the Price Paul-Emile-Borduas

  • 1998 - Price Condorcet: With all the signatories of the Total Refusal

Paintings

Some of its works are posted in the Web:
  • Self-portrait (1940)
  • Abstraction No 7 (1942)
  • The Circular Not, Nest off Airplanes (1950)
  • 3 + 3 + 2 (1956)

Catalog reasoned

Its catalog reasoned on line is with www.borduas.concordia.ca

Place

There exists in Montreal, the Paul-Emile-Borduas place, lane connecting the Grande Bibliothèque of Quebec and the street St-Denis.

External bonds

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