Claire Meunier

Claire Meunier (born July 11, 1928(1928-07-11) in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec), is a French Canadian painter trained at the Montreal school of fine arts where she befriended Alfred Pellan who certainly had some influence on her early work, but it did not take much time before she started expressing a unique personal style.

Her works

A modern painter, the richness of her pictorial creations could have been easily associated with delirium by some art critic because of her revealing some very special imaginary worlds and ideas. Many of her paintings drag the viewer in an adventurous wandering through very rich and puzzling dream-like landscapes nevertheless including some recognizable familiar markers

Contrarily, some of her works are more difficult to grasp, because of movements, rhythms and textures they seem almost inspired by psychedelic aesthetics.

Awards

• The minister’s first prize, painting section, 1951.
• Several first prizes for drawing, aesthetics and decorative art.
• Member of ‘La société des artistes professionnels du Québec’.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions 

• 1952 and 1957: Salon du printemps, Montreal Museum of fine arts
• 1972: Man and his world optical shapes pavilion
• 1973: Quebec City museum
• 1975: Canadian cultural centre in Paris, France
• 1985: Galerie d’arts contemporains, Montreal
• 1988: Galerie Georges Dor, Longueuil

Solo exhibitions 

• 1973 : La maison des arts la Sauvegarde
• 1974 : Galerie Georges Dor, Longueuil
• 1976 : Galerie de la Quinzaine, Quebec City museum

• 1976 : Galerie Georges Dor, Longueuil
• 1990 : Dominion Gallery, Montreal

Permanent exhibitions 

• Two of her paintings are part of the Council Art Bank .
• One painting is at the Musée du Québec
• Many of her paintings are part of the Dominion Gallery collection.

External links

• Paintings by Claire Meunier
• La grande Psyché

References

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Name	Meunier, Claire
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Short description	Canadian painter and a good contribution in the modern movement
Date of birth	July 11, 1928(1928-07-11)
Place of birth	St-Denis sur Richelieu
Date of death
Place of death