Françoise Sullivan
Françoise Sullivan (born June 10, 1925 in Montreal ) is a Canadian painter, sculptor, dancer and choreographer.
Becoming and working
Sullivan studied from 1940 to 1944 at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. Her first pictures were shaped by Fauvism and Cubism . Through Paul-Émile Borduas she came into contact with the group of automatists in Montreal. The art historian Maurice Gagnon selected her works for the 1943 Les Sagittaires exhibition at the Dominion Gallery, dedicated to automatism .
From 1945 to 1946 Sullivan studied modern dance in New York with Franziska Boas , the daughter of the anthropologist Franz Boas , and for a short time with Martha Graham and Louis Horst . In 1948 she published the essay La danse et l'espoir , which was included in the Manifest Refus global of the group of automatists and Borduas. Her appearance with her dance partner Jeanne Renaud in 1948 at Ross House is considered to be the founding event of modern dance in Québec.
In 1949 Sullivan married the painter Paterson Ewen . Between 1952 and 1956 she worked as a choreographer and dancer for the television of the CBC . In the late 1950s she turned to sculpture under the guidance of Armand Vaillancourt and learned welding at the École technique de Lachine. In 1960 she took a three-month course in sculpture with Louis Archambault at the École des Beaux-arts . She created a monumental sculpture for Expo 67 . Since the late 1960s she has been experimenting with the material Plexiglas . In 1976 she began working with the sculptor David Moore .
In the 1980s Sullivan turned back to painting, and between 1982 and 1994 she created several painting cycles that are regarded as the culmination of her work in this field. In 1997 the granite sculpture Montagnes was created for the science pavilion of the University of Québec , which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2000 .
Sullivan has been teaching dance at Concordia University since 1997 . In 2001 she was appointed a member of the Order of Canada . The Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal showed a retrospective of her works in 2003.
Prizes and awards
- 1943 Maurice-Cullen Prize
- In 1963 she received the Prix du Québec for her sculpture Chute concentrique
- In 1987 she received the Prix Paul-Émile-Borduas for her work
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Quebec
- 2002 Knight of the Ordre national du Québec
- In 2005 she received one of the Governor General's Awards for visual and media arts.
- 2009 Officer of the Order of Canada
Works (selection)
Choreographies
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Sculptures
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painting
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Works in public collections
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Françoise Sullivan ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Sullivan, Françoise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian painter, sculptor, dancer and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |