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Kittie Bruneau

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Kittie Bruneau
Born(1929-10-12)12 October 1929
Montreal, Quebec
Died6 April 2021(2021-04-06) (aged 91)
Calgary, Alberta
EducationÉcole des beaux-arts de Montréal, Tōshi Yoshida
Known forpainter, printmaker
ElectedRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts
Websitewww.kittiebruneau.com

Kittie Bruneau RCA (12 October 1929 – 6 April 2021) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.

Life and work

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Bruneau was born in Montreal on 12 October 1929.[1][2][3] She studied at École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946 to 1949.[1] She studied for a year at the Montreal School of Arts under the supervision of Ghitta Caiserman-Roth.[1] As a young woman, Bruneau was torn between the visual arts and dance.[4] Following her studies, she travelled to Paris, where she spent the next ten years.[5] While in Europe, she danced in the corps de ballet for the Ballets de Rouen, and the Ballets de l’étoile of Maurice Béjart.[4] While in France she gave birth to a daughter, Anook.

In 1961, Bruneau moved to Bonaventure Island near Percé, Quebec where she lived and worked until 1972. During that time she had a second daughter, Nathalie.[6] 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.[4] Since then she has worked each summer in a studio on Pointe-Saint-Pierre, a few kilometers from Bonaventure.[4]

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.[1] She paints with the canvases on the floor, walking over them as she works.[7] 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.[1]

She has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, Claude Haeffely, Françoise Bujold, Michaël La Chance and other poets to produce work that combines literature and the visual arts.[1] Between 1982 and 1992, she painted seven murals in various places in Quebec.[1]

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,[10] and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bruneau was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[3] She died at the age of 91 on 6 April 2021.[11]

Artist books

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  • 1980 - D’îles et d’ailes (avec poésies de Leonard Cohen, Claude Haeffely, Michaël La Chance, Jacques Renaud, ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, Éditions de la Marotte. np. BNQ|CA/137 RES
  • 1974 - Ah ouiche — t'en — plain, poésies de Françoise Bujold, avec des pointes sèches de Kittie Bruneau, Guilde Graphique.
  • 1974 - Entre chien et loup (poésies de Michaël La Chance avec ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, La Guilde Graphique, 9 pl. BNQ|RES/CA/38; SIGIRD| 02-1143038.
  • 1973 - La Clef de l'envers (poésies de Michaël La Chance avec ill. Kittie Bruneau), Montréal, Éditions de la Marotte, n.p. BNQ|RES/CE/19

Bibliography

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  • 1999 - Nicole Thérien, Kittie Bruneau, Centre d'exposition du Vieux Palais, Les 400 Coups, 96 p. ISBN 2-89540-002-4
  • 1967 - Jacques de Roussan, Kittie Bruneau, préf. Paul Mercier, Lidec, Coll. « Panorama », 36 p.

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Paquet, Bernard (1995). "Kittie Bruneau : le carnaval des mythologies". Vie des Arts (in French). 39 (158): 49–55. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Search results". www.google.com. [better source needed]
  3. ^ a b "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b c d 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.
  5. ^ "Body Movement-Biographies: Kittie Bruneau and Jean-Pierre Vidal". The Virtual Museum of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Museum Chafaud: Previous Exhibitions, The lovers of the Island-Year 2002-Kittie Bruneau". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  7. ^ "Art Today presents "Kittie Bruneau" part 1". Art Today (You Tube). Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Kittie Bruneau". The National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  9. ^ "Searchable List of Works". The Canada Council. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Kittie Bruneau". www.collections.mnbaq.org. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  11. ^ "1929-2021 | la peintre Kittie Bruneau n'est plus". 7 April 2021.
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