Jean-Paul Mousseau

Jean -Paul -Armand Mousseau ( born January 1, 1927 in Montreal, † February 7, 1991 ) was a Canadian painter and sculptor.

Mousseau studied from 1940 to 1945 at the Collège Notre -Dame, where he was a pupil of Frère Jérôme. 1944 works were exhibited by him at the Contemporary Arts Society for the first time. In 1946, he took Paul -Émile Borduas addition, Marcel Barbeau, Pierre Gauvreau, Roger Fauteux, Fernand Leduc and Jean -Paul Riopelle at the first exhibition of Automatistengruppe Montreal part.

After exhibitions in Paris and Prague in 1948 was the first solo exhibition of his work place. In the same year he was one of the signatories of the manifesto of the Automatistengruppe Montreal Refus global. Also at the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery organized exhibition Recent Quebec Painters who in 1951 and 1952 shown in Canada and the United States, his works were on display.

In addition, Mousseau also designed costumes and sets for various theatrical performances. Since 1957, he experimented with synthetic resin and fiber glass as material. The following year, he realized with the ceramist Claude Vermette a number of works of art on buildings. After visiting it price Color and Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, he received in 1960 for one of his objets lumineux the first prize for industrial aesthetics in the art competition of the province of Quebec.

In 1961 he won a competition of Hydro -Québec for the contract for a representative work of art for its new headquarters ( Édifice Hydro-Québec ). The enlightened with moving colored light work of fiberglass and resin 1962 was revealed and praised by critics as a symbol of the integration of modern technology and art. At the same time he realized objects for the building of the Montreal Star and the Palace of Justice in Drummondville.

In 1966 Mousseau participated in the artwork of several metro stations of Montreal. He taught from 1961 to 1964 at the École des beaux -arts de Montréal, and in 1968 at Laval University. In 1997, the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal showed a retrospective of his work.

• Painter (Canada)
• Sculptor (Canada)
• Canadian
• Born 1927
• Died in 1991
• Man