Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1948, a startling document was published in Montreal. Refus global (“Total Rejection”) was an angry, poetic declaration of aesthetic independence, an assertion of ...
A key figure in contemporary art, abstract painter Fernand Leduc died on Tuesday (January 28) at the age of 97. Leduc was part of “Les Automatistes” a group of painters in the predominantly ...
It’s been 70 years since a group of young Québécois artists calling themselves Les Automatistes lit a torch in the Grande Noirceur of the Duplessis era with their collective manifesto Refus global. It ...