Jacques Hurtubise (painter)

Jacques Hurtubise (1939–2014) was a Canadian abstract painter,[1][2] "known for his abstract, brightly coloured acrylic paintings".[3]

Hurtubise was born on February 28, 1939 in Montreal, and studied painting at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Already by 1960, at age 21, he had his first major show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.[2][3] He spent much of the 1960s living in New York City and becoming part of the abstract expressionist scene there.[1] His art at that time combined geometric forms with splashed paint, and he experimented with fluorescent colors and neon light art.[1][2] In the early 1970s his compositions were based on square forms, but by the late 1970s they shifted to linear patterns that resembled abstract landscapes.[1] His later work featured "deep-black pools, rivers and geometric forms that often mask upside-down maps and text."[2]

His many awards included the grand prize for painting at the 1965 Concours Artistique du Québec, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1993, and the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas of the Québec government in 2000.[2]

He moved to Nova Scotia in 1983,[2] and died on December 27, 2014, near Inverness, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Beaudry, Louise (September 4, 2007), "Jacques Hurtubise", The Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica Canada), retrieved 2015-03-01
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Macdonald, Michael (January 1, 2015), "Award winner Jacques Hurtubise had great influence on abstract painting", The Globe and Mail.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Segal, Molly (December 30, 2014), "Painter Jacques Hurtubise remembered as inspiration: Hurtubise, known for his abstract acrylic paintings, died Saturday", CBC News.

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