Nova Scotia, Quebec / Canada. 1939 - 2014
Abstract painting, printing, murals, teaching
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Born 1932 Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Known for: Geometric abstract-op, sculptor.
A Canadian painter and sculptor, Claude Tousignant studied at the Montreal Museum School of Arts and Design from 1948 to 1952 under Jacques de Tonnancour. In October 1952 he moved to Paris, where he... Read full biography
A Canadian painter and sculptor, Claude Tousignant studied at the Montreal Museum School of Arts and Design from 1948 to 1952 under Jacques de Tonnancour. In October 1952 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Acadamie Ranson. His time in Paris was not fruitful, and in 1953 he returned to... Read full biography
A Canadian painter and sculptor, Claude Tousignant studied at the Montreal Museum School of Arts and Design from 1948 to 1952 under Jacques de Tonnancour. In October 1952 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Acadamie Ranson. His time in Paris was not fruitful, and in 1953 he returned to Montreal where he became associated with an artistic community that included the Canadian painter Rita Letendre (b 1929) and Guido Molinari. These artists were then moving away from the Automatism of... Read full biography
A Canadian painter and sculptor, Claude Tousignant studied at the Montreal Museum School of Arts and Design from 1948 to 1952 under Jacques de Tonnancour. In October 1952 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Acadamie Ranson. His time in Paris was not fruitful, and in 1953 he returned to Montreal where he became associated with an artistic community that included the Canadian painter Rita Letendre (b 1929) and Guido Molinari. These artists were then moving away from the Automatism of Paul-Emile Borduas towards Tachism, and Tousignant exhibited 13 Tachist works at the Galerie de l'Echouerie in Montreal in 1955. In 1956, after a brief interest in the works of Sam Francis and Mark Rothko, he began to produce hard-edge painting using two or... Read full biography
A Canadian painter and sculptor, Claude Tousignant studied at the Montreal Museum School of Arts and Design from 1948 to 1952 under Jacques de Tonnancour. In October 1952 he moved to Paris, where he attended the Acadamie Ranson. His time in Paris was not fruitful, and in 1953 he returned to Montreal where he became associated with an artistic community that included the Canadian painter Rita Letendre (b 1929) and Guido Molinari. These artists were then moving away from the Automatism of Paul-Emile Borduas towards Tachism, and Tousignant exhibited 13 Tachist works at the Galerie de l'Echouerie in Montreal in 1955. In 1956, after a brief interest in the works of Sam Francis and Mark Rothko, he began to produce hard-edge painting using two or three contrasted colours, as in Place of Infinity. This move was influenced by the writing... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: Accélérateur chromatique 90, 1968
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Claude TousignantAccélérateur chromatique 90, 1968
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Quebec / Canada. 1917 - 2005
Abstract figure and landscape painting, teaching
Quebec / Canada. Born 1929
Abstract painting, political commentary
Quebec / Canada. 1930 - 2009
Abstract, geometric painting
Ontario / Canada. 1924 - 2006
Abstract expressionist painting, commercial art
New York, Ontario / Canada. 1928 - 2023
Minimal abstract painting, photo montage, video
British Columbia / Canada. 1923 - 2001
Abstract, tree landscape, social genre painting
Quebec / Canada, France. 1923 - 1999
Abstract paintings, prints, murals and teaching
Quebec, New York / Canada. 1933 - 2004
Abstract-op art-stripes painting, sculpture, teaching
Quebec / Canada. 1931 - 1999
Kinetic sculpture, easel and mural painting, prints, teaching
Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador / Canada, Netherlands. Born 1943
Painting, graphic design, printmaking, teaching
Quebec / Canada, France. 1916 - 2014
Abstract expressionist painting, printmaking, tapestry design
Canada. Born 1940
Painting
British Columbia, Alberta / Canada, Japan. 1909 - 1976
Geometric abstract painting, graphics, murals, decoration, teaching
British Columbia, Quebec / Canada, Mexico. 1937 - 2011
Abstract and realist painting and sculpture-abstract expression
Quebec / Canada. 1912 - 1945
Genre, interior, landscape and figure painting, rug hooking
Quebec / Canada. 1928 - 2006
Modernist painting
Quebec / Canada. 1930 - 2013
Modernist painting, sculpture, teaching
Quebec / Canada. 1878 - 1953
Public sculpture, painting, teaching
Ontario / Canada. 1903 - 2002
Abstract painting
Quebec / Canada, France. 1910 - 2007
Abstract painting, printmaking and graphics
British Columbia, Hawaii / Canada, Germany. Born 1962
Distorted male figure and floral painting
Quebec, Ontario / Canada. 1888 - 1960
Figure, portrait and landscape painting, teaching
Quebec, Ontario / Canada. 1881 - 1956
Bucolic landscape and figure painting
Ontario / Canada. 1933 - 2000
Abstract expressionist painting
Alberta / Canada. 1933 - 2013
Abstraction, often grids
Quebec / Canada. 1928 - 1989
Non-figurative, abstract painting
Quebec / Canada, France. 1850 - 1917
Wood carving, church decoration
Ontario / Canada. 1917 - 1996
Abstract expressionist painting and sculpture
Quebec / Canada. 1904 - 1990
Figure, modernist genre, religious theme easel and mural paintings
Ontario, Saskatchewan / Canada. 1925 - 2009
Painting, sculpture, graphic art, murals and teaching
Ontario / Canada. 1927 - 1999
Designer, figure sculpture, carving