1. Jean-Philippe Dallaire was one of the leading artists working figuratively in the 1960s in Canada.
18 Facts About Jean Dallaire
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Jean Dallaire is known for his festive scenes peopled by macabre characters.
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Jean-Philippe Dallaire was born in Hull to a large working-class family.
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Jean Dallaire started drawing when he was eleven years old.
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Jean Dallaire studied at the Ecole technique in Hull and at the Central Technical School in Toronto between 1932 and 1935.
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In Ottawa, Dallaire become involved with Les Confreres artistes Le Caveau, working alongside Henri Masson.
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In 1938 Jean Dallaire studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montreal.
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Jean Dallaire was held in the camp of Saint-Denis, near Paris, for four years.
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Jean Dallaire returned to Canada after the war and from 1945 to 1952 taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City.
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Jean Dallaire worked for the National Film Board of Canada as a cartoonist for educational films in Ottawa from 1952 to 1956 and then in Montreal from 1956 to 1958.
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Jean Dallaire was among the artists selected to decorate the interior of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, owned by the Canadian National Railway, which opened in 1958.
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In 1959 Jean Dallaire moved to Vence in the south of France where he lived until his death in 1965.
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The first retrospective of Jean Dallaire's work was organized by the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal and the Musee du Quebec in 1968.
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Jean Dallaire was technically a virtuoso in both painting and drawing.
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Jean Dallaire painted on cardboard, canvas board, linen or cotton canvas, chipboard and plywood.
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Jean Dallaire paid little attention to external trends, while his style constantly evolved as he matured.
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Jean Dallaire's best known works are his paintings of festivities populated by unreal charactersesoves, glimpses of a mysterious private world.
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Jean Dallaire's oils look like gouaches, the texture of the board, or canvas, visible under the fine layers of paint.