Description
As part of the 70th anniversary of Gatineau Visual Arts, we are offering monthly meetings. Our artists share their passions, their backgrounds, their interests, and their careers.
Ms. Linda Beauparlant is a ceramist who has worked with plants and clay for several years. This led her to research art history. In a lecture format, she will introduce you to these plants that have changed the course of history and inspired artists.
Why is there a pineapple in a 1659 work in England is far from tropical plantations?
What is the huge gap between the history of tea and the bucolic afternoon tea scenes of the Impressionist painters?
How was the coconut used in contemporary art to denounce one of the greatest nuclear disasters?
And many more to discover…
Level : This presentation is for all levels.
Location : Chalet Jean-Chénier, 515 Jean-Chénier Street, Gatineau (Aylmer sector)
Date : Wednesday, October 15.
Hours : 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
This presentation will be offered in French only.
Minimum of 11 participants.
Cost for members: $5 (non-member $6)
About the presenter: Originally from Montreal, Ms. Beauparlant arrived in Outaouais in 1982 and taught visual arts there for 35 years. Although she has worked with clay almost always, both at the beginning of her apprenticeship at college and in the practice of teaching her students, she now devotes it full-time in her studio in Pontiac. She can now create unique earthenware pieces based on her research by combining forest plants and clay. Her training in teaching visual arts, majoring in painting at the Université du Québec à Montréal, in sculpture at the Université de Montréal as well as engraving workshops in Val-David have certainly influenced her current artistic approach.
