{"title":"Gauvreau, Pierre","description":"\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePierre Gauvreau, a great Canadian automatist painter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA great Canadian master, the painter Pierre Gauvreau was born in Montreal in 1922 (died in 2011). Pierre Gauvreau studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal after completing the Lettres cycle at Collège Sainte-Marie. He is an automatist painter. Paul-Émile Borduas wrote of him in Indiscrétions (winter 1947-1948): \"Pierre the born painter. The most serene revolutionary painting there is. Dawn or setting sun […].\" Attempting to define Pierre Gauvreau's painting is impossible given the breadth and vast scope of his creation. Several periods punctuated his research. A signatory of the Refus global (like, among others, his brother Claude – a fundamental poet and playwright), Pierre Gauvreau remained faithful to the spirit of surrealism throughout his life. Abstract painter? Labels do not stick to his creative output.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA painter with many talents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter the Automatist adventure, he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he would become one of the most important directors. From the early 1950s onwards, the painter was seen less, even though he did not abandon his pictorial practice. He made a notable comeback in 1975 with an exhibition composed of recent works that renewed his language, without having lost the essence of the Automatist and the spirit of the Surrealist. In addition, the exhibition was enhanced by his other professional and creative activities at Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada. His contribution to our society is vast. Painter, screenwriter, director, author, filmmaker… His language and his approach will have marked Quebec in all its practices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A great among the greats!” Robert Bernier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Pierre Gauvreau's painting, whether from today or tomorrow, is and always will be an act of lucidity and conviction.\" Robert Bernier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003eFrom 1960 to 1975, he abandoned painting. In 1976, he picked up his brushes again and tirelessly pursued his artistic exploration. In his most recent work, Pierre Gauvreau uses mattes and aerosols, which gives his works a raw, artifice-free character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Pierre Gauvreau's painting, whether of today or tomorrow, is and always will be an act of lucidity and conviction.\" Robert Bernier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Quebec painter, Pierre Gauvreau's artwork can be found in several important private, public, and corporate collections. From October 2013 to September 2014, a major exhibition organized by the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City paid tribute to Pierre Gauvreau and his world, \"Pierre Gauvreau. I hoped to see you here.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eADDITIONAL ARTICLE(S):\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePierre Gauvreau (1922-2011)\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"FR-CA\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan lang=\"FR-CA\" style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR-CA;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePierre Gauvreau is well known to the general public as the author of the television series Le temps d'une paix, Cormoran, and Le volcan tranquille. Many people know that he paints, but too few people are aware of his true importance as an artist. His entire body of work places him among the most influential painters of the last sixty years. Of course, Gauvreau was an automatist. He wrote Refus global, and already, in the 1940s, he was one of the brightest hopes of our painting. However, the influence of this essential artist far exceeds the, if not limited, at least restrictive, idea that one might have of him. For his painting has lived beyond history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 1976, the year he picked up his brushes again after temporarily interrupting his pictorial creation, he has tirelessly pursued his plastic exploration with astonishing vitality, leading his expression to constant renewal while remaining in the continuity of his previous creative actions. In fact, if we generally make a marked distinction between Gauvreau the director and Gauvreau the painter, the former sees his different activities as an inseparable whole, each one being complementary and essential to his purpose and to the way he views his environment, society, in short, life. However, for the general public, it is not always easy to forge links between these different activities. How, in practice, do the painter, the director and the author complement each other? How does Gauvreau's painting benefit from this?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe correlation between the director and the painter seems to be manifested by the fact that Gauvreau, accustomed to working in a control room, on television, with a panoply of monitors, constructs his pictorial space in sequences. His extraordinary ability to establish connections is reflected in his painting by his singular way of making all the parts of the work correspond while establishing a modulation of rhythm. Indeed, Gauvreau's paintings appear as an amalgam of forms and treatments that, at first glance, have little in common. Yet, he succeeds in creating fascinating interrelationships between the different zones. Abstract, the works tell more than they appear, although they could not be called narrative. This is part of his genius: creating dynamic spaces in which multiple correspondences intersect, building an autonomous universe animated by a life of its own, without it being possible to describe, name, or narrate the action, and without any real relationship to physical reality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe could even speak, for some paintings, of \"objective narration\", since the story that is recounted is essentially pictorial. Others obey a rapid, intuitive, almost wild gesture that recalls - while distinguishing itself from - his automatist adventure, the spontaneous transcription of being, with the difference that today this dimension is added a long-term reflection, areas of weighting that further flesh out his plastic purpose; a cross between the concerns of plastic artists, the automatist spirit and the rigor of his practice. And this rigor becomes a fundamental element of his creation in that it acts as a moderator. It has already been said or written that Pierre Gauvreau is a creator of slow maturation. It is true that the artist likes to take the time necessary to create, and that the process in which he engages sometimes requires a lot of patience. But there you have it, the initial impulse is rather overwhelming for him, and it is the ordering of this impulse that requires time. When the fire is well stoked, production explodes!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his most recent work, Gauvreau uses mattes and aerosols, which give his works a raw, unadorned character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, even if changing medium inevitably leads to a change in the technique, the foundations of his work remain unchanged to this day: rigor and a remarkable ability to build ever-surprising connections. In short, today as yesterday, Pierre Gauvreau acts like a great transformer. His painting is alive not only because it evolves and transforms, but also because each painting that makes up his work is a territory in which transmutation is expressed. The zonal modulation that characterizes his language carries within it the idea of ​​passage from one state to another; the sequences are the vehicle, his thought and his philosophy of life, the engine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSource: Robert Bernier,\u0026nbsp;La peinture au Québec depuis les années 1960,\u0026nbsp;Les Éditions de l’Homme,\u0026nbsp;2002,\u0026nbsp;Gauvreau Pierre Gauvreau\u0026nbsp;(1922), pages 27-29.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTO LEARN MORE:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Gauvreau_(peintre)\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWIKIPEDIA - PIERRE GAUVREAU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Gauvreau_(peintre)\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre_Gauvreau_(painter)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collections.mnbaq.org\/fr\/artiste\/600001303\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNATIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF QUEBEC - PIERRE GAUVREAU\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collections.mnbaq.org\/fr\/artiste\/600001303\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/collections.mnbaq.org\/fr\/artiste\/600001303\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp role=\"presentation\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/arts\/201104\/08\/01-4387829-pierre-gauvreau-est-decede.php\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLA PRESSE - PIERRE GAUVREAU HAS DIED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/arts\/201104\/08\/01-4387829-pierre-gauvreau-est-decede.php\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/arts\/201104\/08\/01-4387829-pierre-gauvreau-est-decede.php\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OluJ8_CArjM?si=l78aXxlZcGkyWLCS\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KwdnCk5LzbE?si=OqGLgjQQxaafbak1\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pierre-gauvreau-quand-les-brumes-se-dissipent-24x20po-60-9x50-8cm","title":"Pierre Gauvreau, Quand Les Brumes se Dissipent  24×20 in \/ 60.96×50.8 cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePierre Gauvreau\u003c\/strong\u003e, \"Quand les Brumes se Dissipent\" (When the Mists Dissipate) 24×20 in \/ 60.96×50.8 cm, is a work created in 2006. This mixed media painting on canvas explores the idea of revelation and clarity, symbolized by the dissipation of mists. The work, rich in textures and nuances, embodies a poetic transition and captivating visual depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePierre Gauvreau's painting is alive not only because it evolves and transforms, but also because each canvas that makes up his body of work is a territory in which transmutation is expressed. The zonal modulation that characterizes his language carries within it the idea of passing from one state to another; sequences are the vehicle, his thought and his philosophy of life, the engine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eImportant \/ Contextual Note:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe illustration of the artwork in the living room setting is a digital simulation. It does not necessarily represent the exact scale or the actual dimensions of the painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003ePierre Gauvreau\u003cbr\u003e- T\u003cstrong\u003eechnique:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mixed media on canvas\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eYear: \u003c\/strong\u003e2006\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60.96×50.8 cm (24×20”)\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Poetic Abstraction\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eExcellent\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003ePrice:\u003c\/strong\u003e On request\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie Nuances","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45749345386749,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/0109\/2861\/files\/Gaudreau-Jean.jpg?v=1775429542"}],"url":"https:\/\/galerienuances.com\/en\/collections\/pierre-gauvreau-artiste-peintre-automatiste-canadien.oembed","provider":"Galerie Nuances","version":"1.0","type":"link"}