Kittie Bruneau
| Kittie Bruneau | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1929 (age 86–87) Montreal |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | École des beaux-arts de Montréal, Tōshi Yoshida |
| Known for | painting, printmaking |
| Website |
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| Elected | Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |
Kittie Bruneau, RCA[1] is a Canadian painter and printmaker living in Quebec.
Life and Work
Bruneau was born in Montreal in 1929.[1][2] She studied at École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946 to 1949.[2] She studied for a year at the Montreal School of Arts under the supervision of Ghitta Caiserman-Roth.[2] As a young woman, Bruneau was torn between the visual arts and dance.[3] Following her studies, she travelled to Paris where she spent the next ten years.[4] While in Europe, she danced in the corps de ballet for the Ballets de Rouen, and the Ballets de l’étoile of Maurice Béjart.[3]
In 1961, Bruneau moved to Bonaventure Island near Percé, Quebec where she lived and worked until 1972.[5] At that time, the Province of Quebec evicted all residents in order to depopulate the island. Her island studio is preserved as part of the Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park.[3] Since then she has worked each summer in a studio on Pointe-Saint-Pierre, a few kilometers from Bonaventure.[3]
Bruneau has a direct approach, using bright colours and a free gestural manner to portray figures and objects combined in compositions that have their roots in the world of poetry and dream.[2] She paints with the canvases on the floor, walking over them as she works.[6] Her work aligns with surrealism, with some aspects of automatism. Other artists who explore this territory include in Quebec, Alfred Pellan and Jean Dallaire; and internationally, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky.[2]
Through her career, Bruneau has been awarded support for her work, including:
- ten large paintings of the Gaspé, Canada Council, 1964.[2]
- studies in printmaking at Centre de recherches graphiques de Montréal, Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec, 1965.[2]
- six weeks at Arcosanti in Arizona under the direction of Paolo Soleri (1972)[2]
- studies in woodcut with Tōshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1985)[2]
- production of prints at l'Atelier du Scarabée, with Bonnie Baxter, in Val-David, Quebec.[7]
She has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, Claude Haeffely, Françoise Bujold and other poets to produce work that combines literature and the visual arts.[2] Between 1982 and 1992, she painted seven murals in various places in Quebec.[2]
Bruneau's work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[8] Canada Council Art Bank,[9] Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Bruneau was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[1]
Notes
- 1 2 3 "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Paquet, Bernard (1995). "Kittie Bruneau : le carnaval des mythologies". Vie des Arts (in French). 39 (158): 49–55. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 Emond, Ariane (1 November 2000). "Kittie Bruneau, peintre : la liberté en toile de fond". Gazette des Femmes (in French). Gouvernement du Québec. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ↑ "Body Movement-Biographies: Kittie Bruneau and Jean-Pierre Vidal". The Virtual Museum of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ↑ "Museum Chafaud: Previous Exhibitions, The lovers of the Island-Year 2002-Kittie Bruneau". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ↑ "Art Today presents "Kittie Bruneau" part 1". Art Today (You Tube). Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ↑ "Bonnie Baxter-Biography". Bonnie Baxter. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ↑ "Kittie Bruneau". The National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- ↑ "Searchable List of Works". The Canada Council. Retrieved 28 September 2013.