Painting titled "Hommage à Pellan" by Jean-Thomas Bédard, Original Artwork, Gouache

Hommage à Pellan (1968) Painting by Jean-Thomas Bédard

Not For Sale

Seller Jean-Thomas Bédard

Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Gouache on Cardboard

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 28in, Width 22.5in
Artwork's condition Artwork may show signs of wear or visible flaws
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Surrealism Colorful

Hommage à Pellan est une oeuvre dédicacée à mon mentor Alfred Pellan, peintre québécois de renom aujourd'hui décédé, chez qui on retrouve des influences de Max Ernst et de Juan Miro. Comme Pellan et Miro, j'ai une passion pour la couleur et l'exploration ludique des formes. Cette oeuvre a été vendue à Jack Greenwald (Agence Constance Brown) de Montréal, rencontré chez Pellan et qui m'a acheté plusieurs peintures en 1968. Il ne me reste de ce tableau qu'une seule diapositive dont les couleurs ont été altérées avec le temps. C'est un peinture qui a beaucoup d'importance pour moi puisqu'elle représente, avec DEVANT LA MURAILLE (1972) l'apogée d'une certaine période de ma production. C'est la raison pour laquelle j'ai tenu à ce qu'elle fasse partie de mon portefolio.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Gouache

The substances are diluted with water and rendered pasty and opaque by the addition of gum and honey. The colors become opaque and can, therefore, be superimposed, which makes one paint with gouache as with oil. The gouache is recommended by its bright, fresh and delicate tones.

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Jean-Thomas Bédard

Canada

Jean-Thomas Bédard is a professional photographer from Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec (Canada). Painter, filmmaker and photographer, he started drawing at the age of 12. At 20, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, then the animation department of the National Film Board. He was responsible for directing animated films and documentaries for more than 30 years. His animated short L'âge de Chaise - Chairmen has won awards at several international festivals.

At 32, he embarked on a year-long trip around the world where he became very interested in photography. This led him to present in Montreal and Toronto an exhibition on traditional ways of life in Central America, the Pacific and Indonesia (York University). He has also exhibited his paintings in Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver at different locations.

In 1985-86, he became an animation trainer at the Centro technico e audiovisual in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Back in Quebec, he continued to make documentaries such as The Crossing of the Night, Father for Life, and The Unfinished Journey. In 2003, his career was put on hold.

Since 2011, he has been experimenting with the textures and colors of nature in photography to create pieces that sometimes resemble abstract art and sometimes a poetic universe. His favorite subject was the many facets of the St. Lawrence coast that could be seen when the tide was low.