Jean Gaudreau

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Full Name	Jean Gaudreau
Date Of Birth	May 27, 1964(1964-05-27)
Age	60
Birthplace	Quebec City
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec City
Horoscope	Gemini

Jean Gaudreau Biography

Jean Gaudreau is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on May 27, 1964 in Quebec City, Quebec City, Canada. Jean Gaudreau was born in Quebec City on May 27, 1964. When he’s 10 years old, his mother, Claudia Tremblay, a plastic art teacher, musician and painter, entrust her son to Sister Alice Pruneau to teach him the basics of drawing, at the Séminaire des Pères Maristes in Quebec City. As a child, he learns the “old fashion way’’ the Mezzotint as well as the importance of geometry in drawing. Indeed, Pruneau teaches him the rules of perspective, the vanishing points as well as the Golden Triangle. The painter’s mother also played a dominant role in the apprenticeship of her son’s plastic practices. She herself would become multidisciplinary artist Jean Palardy’s student.

When he is 12 years old, Jean paints genre art scenes in Quebec’s old port. He thus sketches his first subjects : the stevedores, the boats, the docks, the river and in the background, the buildings perched on Quebec City’s headland, the cap Diamant. He outlines, in the manner of the countryside landscape painters, the contours of the old buildings. The Château Frontenac, the Séminaire de Québec, Price Building, are some favourite subjects of the passionate teenager, and as such, premonitory subjects. For instance, this painting view of the Bassin Louise Les remorqueurs (The stevedores) precedes by some thirty years playwright and filmmaker Robert Lepage’s Le Moulin à images. In 2008, the Jean Gaudreau’s artworks are to be projected on some huge grain silos at the Anse au Foulon among those of other great painters in the history of Quebec City.

“By using a material out of the past—the copper—transforming it into a contemporary character, the artist explores what could be described as the point of metamorphosis of the medium, trying to answer questions such as ‘What happens when these remains begin a new life?’ ‘What happens when the past and the present become one and the same?’ Asked about his choice of the iconography of the heart as subjects in his recent creation, Jean Gaudreau states : ‘I have chosen the shape of the heart, timeless symbol of love, to express this transition between past and present. Past and presents are the two beats of a same heart.'”

The use of the epithet multidisciplinary to introduce this creator, merges with the appropriate cross-disciplinary one. Jean Gaudreau sculpts the raw matter in a diligent manner, a rigour born of a vast workshop experience, bending his back, kneading the surfaces and twisting the supports. This all- crazy labour demonstrates his mastering of colour combinations, impressionist gesture and, above all, his careful attention towards the planarity of the canvas. The artist cannot stand the lightness of emptiness, or the mundane of everyday life. The large canvases shown in 2003 in the Cirque du Soleil’s headquarters bear witness to this; loaded surfaces, busy, choked, bruised and nervously piled.

Jean Gaudreau Net Worth

Jean Gaudreau is one of the richest Painter from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean Gaudreau 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jean Gaudreau is a Canadian artist painter, engraver, born on May 27, 1964, in Quebec City. He is considered one of the most influent contemporary painters in the province’s capital (Capitale-Nationale).

Until 1985, the paintings or rural landscapes in Charlevoix are a curiosity for denizens and tourists of L’Isle-aux-Coudres. The summers of the artist’s youth, are spent painting landscapes, up to one to two hundred a year. His paintings are sold outside a famous hotel of the island. “Jean Gaudreau paints using oil, acrylic and oil pastels which he masters and harmonizes with both fervour and subtlety.” It is a significant period for the teenager, who regularly visits the artist painter Jean Paul Lemieux. The older man is always ready to underline to young Jean Gaudreau the importance of the drawings in the practice of painting. “At 17 years old, Jean Gaudreau presents his first solo exhibition in an art gallery, and he has since been seen regularly in solo or group exhibitions. Hundreds of his paintings were acquired by private or public collections, and several mural painting experiments will give way to more important commissions.”

In 2008, he was immortalized as one of the most notorious figures of Quebec’s contemporary art by Robert Lepage during the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City. In his animated film Le Moulin à images, Robert Lepage projected images of artworks by Jean Gaudreau next to works from Jean-Paul Lemieux, Martin Bureau, Jean-Paul Riopelle et Alfred Pellan, among others, on grain silos located in Anse au Foulon, in Quebec City’s old port.

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Jean Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Jean Gaudreau celebrates birthday on May 27 of every year.