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Kittie Bruneau
Le Quai/The Dock
2015

About the Item

Fearless. In a world of contemporary art permeated with new media and technology, Kittie Bruneau is a true phenomenon. Unencumbered by convention, she paints like a woman possessed. Possessed of a talent marked by an urgency that drives her brushstroke and spills paint onto canvas with exhilarating vigour. There is no art without intoxication, said the great French artist Jean Dubuffet. Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach. But lest we categorize Bruneau's expressive output as Art Brut, it must be noted that she has formal training, having studied at l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and at the Museum of Fine Arts School of Arts. Born in 1929, she spent time in Europe, studying dance in Paris, and for a while led a somewhat peripatetic lifestyle, travelling to North Africa, South-East Asia and South America. The impressions, colours and textures of far away lands found their way into her canvases, but she drew equal inspiration closer to home, in the vast expanse of the Gaspé Peninsula, channelling its overwhelming natural beauty into her creative process. A painters' painter, Bruneau tackles her metier with the exuberance of a child and the astuteness of a sage. She draws from a range of symbols, her own personal assortment of visual notations that take the form of fish, birds, boats, but also faces and masks, thus oscillating between reality and fantasy, the inner and outer world, and all the time keeping true to her visual lexicon. It would be facile to compare her works to those of Picasso, Antonio Saura or Mimmo Paladino. What all these artists have in common, more than their particular imagery and palette, is a powerful energy that drives their creativity. Free and audacious, these painters consistently, persistently labour on the side of artistic expression, all else be damned. Kittie Bruneau tends towards the large format in her paintings; that kind of energy must be difficult to hold in check, and it is to her enormous credit that she does so with the same ease as when she releases it. Once she embarks on a painting, Bruneau in effect begins a kind of dance. She literally steps into her work; standing on, walking over the canvas spread on the floor, creating, sowing the images as she moves across it. There is no rush, the steps are deliberate, the gestures unencumbered yet controlled, the colours leading the way in this dazzling visual pageant. -Dorota Kozinska

Creator:
Kittie Bruneau (1929, Canadian)
Creation Year:
2015
Dimensions:
Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)
Medium:
Acrylic,Canvas
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Westmount, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1092680772

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