Joseph Giunta - Artist Info

About Joseph Giunta

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Joseph Guinta
  • Biography

    The following, submitted July 2004, is from Richard Marroni, representative of the
    artist.

    Joseph Giunta had an artistic career that spaned over 70 years. He is known for both of his styles, realism and gestural abstraction. From the 1930's to 1960's, he created traditional style portraits, still lifes and landscapes, and from 1960 to 2001, he did gestural abstraction including organic collages, and geometric constructions.

    With his family's origins rooted in Sicily and born in Montreal, Canada, Joseph Giunta began his painting studies in 1925 at the age of 14 under the direction of Adrien Hebert and Johnny Johnston. From 1927 to 1930, he studied at the Monument National and at the Montreal School of Fine Arts and pursued...

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