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Kittie Bruneau
Born1929 (age 94–95)
Montreal, Quebec
NationalityCanadian
EducationÉcole des beaux-arts de Montréal, Tōshi Yoshida
Known forpainting, printmaking
ElectedRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts
Websitewww.kittiebruneau.com

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]

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.[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,[7] Canada Council Art Bank,[8] Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[9] and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Bruneau was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[1]

Artist book

  • 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

  • 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

  1. ^ a b c "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Body Movement-Biographies: Kittie Bruneau and Jean-Pierre Vidal". The Virtual Museum of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Art Today presents "Kittie Bruneau" part 1". Art Today (You Tube). Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  7. ^ "Kittie Bruneau". The National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Searchable List of Works". The Canada Council. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  9. ^ "Kittie Bruneau". www.collections.mnbaq.org. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
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