Paul-Émile Borduas

Paul -Émile Borduas ( born 1 November 1905 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire/Québec, † February 22, 1960 in Paris) was a Canadian painter.

Borduas was a pupil of the painter Ozias Leduc and studied church after attending the École des Beaux -Arts in Montreal from 1928 to 1930 in Paris. From 1937 he taught at the École du Meuble of the Montreal Art College.

With some students, he founded in the early 1940s, the group Les Automatistes in Montreal. A selection of her works was created in 1947 for an exhibition under the title Automatisme in the Galerie du Luxembourg in Paris by Jean -Paul Riopelle and Fernand Leduc. 1948 published the manifesto Refus Global, whose signatories were all awarded the 1998 Prix Condorcet.

His commitment to the automatic cost him the teaching assignment and Borduas was struggling in the following years, except with health and financial problems; Moreover, the artists of the Automatistengruppen increasingly went their own ways, and this broke up. Borduas moved in 1953 to New York and came here under the influence of representatives of Abstract Expressionism as Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. In 1955 he returned to Paris, where he died after five productive years as a painter of a heart attack.

In 1971 the exhibition Borduas et les Automatistes was shown in Paris and Montreal. 1977, the award for painting of the Prix du Québec was named after him Prix Paul -Émile Borduas -.

Notes

• Automatism ( art )

Works

• Maurice Gagnon, 1937
• Tahitian, 1941
• Trees in the Night, 1943
• Sous le vent de l' Ile, 1947
• Massive Floraison, 1951
• Pulsation, 1955
• White Ground, 1956
• Black Star, 1957
• The Seagull, 1957