Joseph Giunta, a great Canadian painter
A great Canadian master, the painter Joseph Giunta, ARC (Royal Canadian Academy of Arts) was born in Montreal in 1911 (died in 2001). He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and at the Copley Society of Artists in Boston. Giunta's major stages are: figuration from 1936 to 1958 (landscapes, still lifes and Canadian scenes), gestural abstraction from 1958 to 1975 (gesture, color, Fauvism), geometric or organic constructions from 1971 to 2001 (collage, construction and assemblage, three-dimensional works, mixed materials and media, multiple objects and chromatic contrasts). "To live, isn't it continually taking up the beautiful challenge of changing, evolving, moving towards the unknown?"
In 2001, a major exhibition of his works was held at the Maison de la culture Frontenac. The release of Pepita Ferrari's film, "Joseph Giunta: A Silent Triumph," also helped to raise the artist's profile on the Quebec and Canadian art scene.
A Montreal painting
"Born in Montreal in 1911, Joseph Giunta was of Sicilian origin. As a painter, he experienced great successes but also setbacks. His life was not a smooth ride. His painting was divided over time into different periods, the first of which was expressed around landscapes, especially urban ones. He advocated a rather academic style in his early years, but his way of presenting and framing his subjects already guided him towards modernity. Then, although always figurative, his approach favored working with crushed materials, and his palette also became more personal.
At the end of the 1950s, he plunged into non-figuration, where his gesture imposed the rhythm, but not without having retained a great interest in the structure of the painting. In the mid-1970s, he incorporated collage and enjoyed working with relief. His last period is one of the most interesting and accomplished, as if now all that matters to him is the pleasure of assembling and creating. Boldness becomes more and more present. He integrates objects, his works become something else. Neither really paintings, nor really sculptures, nor collages, they become constructions… They are quite simply Giunta. » Robert Bernier
A Quebec painter, Joseph Giunta's works of art are part of many public and private collections.
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