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1927 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada - 1998 Matane, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Stylized, folk art landscape, still life, portrait, village scene and genre painting.
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum administrator and curator known for his severe criticism of contemporary Canadian art. His controversial and often strident views are recalled and discussed at some length in his entertaining diatribe "Picher: The colour of the Gaspe coast". In it, using... Read full biography
Claude Picher ARCA (1927 - 1998). "Claude Picher is the enfant terrible of Quebec art." (1). A prominent Canadian painter and museum professional, Claude Picher was born in Quebec City, Quebec, and died in Matane, Quebec on the Gaspe Peninsula. Picher's style is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable in Canadian art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of several Canadian museums including the National Gallery of Canada. Before becoming a full-time painter he was a museum administrator and curator known for his severe criticism of contemporary Canadian art. His controversial and often strident views are recalled and discussed at some length in his entertaining diatribe "Picher: The colour of the Gaspe coast". In it, using personal anecdote, humor, sarcasm, and arcane historical references, he attacks trends in Canadian art, the globalization of art... Read full biography
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Keywords (52)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Painting, Fine Art
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Avant-Garde, Groundbreaking, Experimental
- •Fauve, Fauvism, Strong, Vivid Coloration
- •Luminous, Luminism
Art Subject
- •City Scenes with Streets, Buildings, Figures and/or Genre
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Rural Scene, Countryside, Farms and/or Barns
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Canada
- •England, London Great Britain After 1900
- •Europe
- •Germany After 1900
- •Greece
- •Italy
- •Russia
- •Spain and/or Portugal
Art Association
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Albert Gleize
- •Jean-Paul Lemieux
- •Julian Levi
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Quebec City, Student
- •Ecole du Louve, Paris, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Canada Council Grant for the Arts
- •Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Grant
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Professional Museum and Art/ or Art Gallerist
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Biennials of Canadian Painting, National Gallery
- •Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Exhibition of Museum
- •Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- •National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- •Quebec Museum of Fine Arts
- •Vancouver Art Gallery
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Painters Eleven-