Pierre Gauvreau
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Pierre Gauvreau (born 23 August 1922 in Montreal) is a Québécois painter who has also worked in film and television productions.
He studied at l'École des beaux-arts de Montréal, which is today part of UQAM. He eventually associated with Quebec artistic dissident group Les Automatistes and became a signatory to the Refus global artistic manifesto.
Gauvreau worked in various aspects of television production during the 1950s. He took a break from painting during the 1960s until 1975. He continued to paint in 2005.
[edit] Awards and recognition
- 1990: Prix Gemeaux, Grand Prix for his film and television work
- 1995: le Prix Louis-Philippe-Hébert
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Pierre Gauvreau was born in Montreal in 1922. He entered the Ècole des beaux arts in 1939. His works immediately attracted the attention of the painter Paul-Èmile Borduas, who invited him to join a group of intellectuals and artists who met in his studio. From 1943 to 1946, he served in the Canadian Army but continued to paint and show his works. Posted in England, he sent works to his brother Claude in April 1946 for l'exposition de la rue Amherst, a showing considered to be the première of the Automatistes group. Along with 15 other members of the group of intellectuals and artists he signed Refus global, a manifesto drawn up by Borduas in 1948. This manifesto which contested among others, Catholic values, unleashed a revolution of artistic creation in Canada. Pierre Gauvreau received the Prix Louis-Philippe-Hébert in 1975 for his pictorial oeuvre.
