Jean-Paul Jérôme (1928 - 2004)

Peinture d'enfance, 1995

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  • Gallery

    Cosner Art Gallery - Montreal

  • Medium

    Acrylic on canvas

  • Time

    Post-War Canadian art

  • Dimensions

    Artwork dimensions 86,4 cm x 96,5 cm / 34" x 38" Dimensions with frame: 96,5 x 111,7 cm / 38'' x 44''

  • Signed

    Signed and dated 17-8-95 lower right


The co-signer of the Manifeste des Plasticiens Jean-Paul Jérôme produces works composed of several canvases juxtaposed in the 1990's. He experiments with the "mosaic effect" by grouping together several paintings of small dimensions painted as if they were 'one piece' 1, the art historian Julie Gagné reminded us. Jérôme's geometric polyptychs, such as Peinture d'enfance (1995), present a recurring element throughout the artist's work: the accuracy of the border delimiting the colors. In Peinture d'enfance, the colors of Jérôme's minimal but saturated palette overlap, as do the lines, sometimes angular, sometimes soft.

During the 1990's, the artist made various experiments with media, shapes, lines and colors. During an interview, Jean-Paul Jérôme confesses: "All my life, I liked the purity of the form, the resonance of the color" 2.

In 1994, Jérôme established his studio, which he named "L'Antre lumineux" in Montreal.

1. Julie Gagné, 2007, The role of color in the pictorial work of Jean-Paul Jérôme, Master's thesis in art history, Université du Québec à Montréal, p. 108.

2. Jean-Paul Jérôme, Jean-Paul Jérôme, "biography", [online], URL: http://jeanpauljerome.com/biographie/, page consulted on June 13, 2019.


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