Texte de la plaque près du buste de Jean-Philippe Dallaire
Jeremie Giles (artiste qui a créé la sculpture)
Jean-Philippe Dallaire
(1916-1965)
2001
Oeuvre commémorative en l'honneur de Jean-Philippe Dallaire ayant habité au 57 rue Vaudreuil, dans le vieux Hull.
Jean-Philippe Dallaire, né le 9 juin 1916 dans le secteur de Hull, dans la ville de Gatineau au Québec, Canada et mort le 27 novembre 1965 à Vence, France, est un artiste-peintre du Québec.
Jean Dallaire est né à Hull au Québec, Canada, le 9 juin 19161. Il commence à dessiner à l'âge de 11 ans2.
Jean Dallaire fait ses études primaires et son cours commercial à Hull.
En 1936, Georges-Henri Lévesque l'invite au monastère des Dominicains à Ottawa ; il y installe son studio et réalise une murale pour la chapelle. En 1938, il fréquente l'École des beaux-arts de Montréal pendant six mois. Il épouse Marie-Thérèse Ayotte d'Ottawa. Il reçoit une bourse du Gouvernement du Québec pour aller travailler à Paris avec Maurice Denis et André Lhote; puis il a son atelier rue de Vaugirard.
En 1940, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est fait prisonnier des Allemands pendant quatre ans. En prison, il étudie le dessin et l'italien2. En 1944, il s'initie aux techniques de la tapisserie. Un an plus tard, il expose à la Galerie de la Maison des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Une plaque rappelle que Jean Dallaire a vécu au 320 rue De Bernières à Québec.
En 1946, il est nommé professeur de peinture et de dessin à l'École des beaux-arts de Québec ; il y enseigne jusqu'en 19522. Ensuite, il travaille à Ottawa pour l'Office national du film du Canada jusqu'en 1957.
En 1957, il s'installe à Montréal. En 1959, il retourne en France, à Paris puis à Vence.
Dallaire a admiré le travail d'Alfred Pellan. « Dallaire était un artiste exigeant, minutieux à l'extrême et ne laissait aucun détail au hasard. »
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Le buste de Jean-Philippe Dallaire repose sur une base on granit. Il porte une veste sous laquelle on apperçoit un chandail à col roulé. Il regarde au loin de façon contemplative et pose les yeux sur ce qui l'entoure.
Jean-Philippe Dallaire
Text on the plaque next to the bust of Jean-Philippe Dallaire
Jeremie Giles (artist who created the sculpture)
Jean-Philippe Dallaire
(1916-1965)
2001
Commemorative artwork in honour of Jean-Philippe Dallaire who lived at 57 rue Vaudreuil, in old Hull.
Jean-Philippe Dallaire (9 June 1916 – 27 November 1965) was a French Canadian painter with an eclectic and highly original style. He is known for his festive scenes peopled by macabre
characters.
Jean-Philippe Dallaire was born in 1916 into a large working-class family.[1] He started drawing when he was eleven years old.[2] He studied at the École technique in Hull and at the Central Technical School in Toronto between 1932 and 1935.[3] In 1936 he set up his studio in the Dominican monastery in Ottawa and began his career painting religious subjects.[4] In 1938 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal.[3] In October 1938 the government of Quebec gave him a grant that allowed him to go to Paris and study at Ateliers d'Art Sacré and the studio of André Lhote. He also worked in his own studio in Montmartre.[2] While in Paris he encountered the work of Pablo Picasso and the surrealists.[5]
During World War II (1939–45), Dallaire and his wife were placed in an internment camp after the German forces occupied Paris in 1940. Dallaire's wife was released after six months.[3] He was held in the camp of Saint-Denis, near Paris, for four years.[6] After being released he took a course in tapestry and apprenticed in tapestry-making in Aubusson under Jean Lurçat.[2]
Dallaire returned to Canada after the war and from 1945 to 1952 taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City. He 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.[3] During this period he was also commissioned to create numerous murals.[2] He was among the artists selected to decorate the interior of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, owned by the Canadian National Railway, which opened in 1958. He contributed a wall hanging. Others were Marius Plamondon (stained glass mural), Claude Vermette (ceramic tiles), Julien Hébert (bronze elevator doors) and Albert Edward Cloutier (carved wooden panels).[7]
In 1959 Dallaire moved to Vence in the south of France where he lived until his death in 1965.[2]
Dallaire was technically a virtuoso in both painting and drawing. He painted on cardboard, canvas board, linen or cotton canvas, chipboard and plywood.[6] Despite his studies, Dallaire was largely self-taught and was highly original. He paid little attention to external trends, while his style constantly evolved as he matured. His early work included realistic portraits, which were followed by cubist and surrealist works. All his work is characterized by a unique perception.[5] Although interested in abstraction, he was essentially representative. His best known works are his paintings of festivities populated by unreal characters, glimpses of a mysterious private world.[2] Despite his cheerful palette, his artificial paradise is peopled by troubled characters affected by fear, madness and violence.[1]
A critic has said, "Dallaire had a magical way of applying paint. His oils look like gouaches, the texture of the board, or canvas, visible under the fine layers of paint. As simple as the image may appear, it is in fact a symphony of colour and gesture, a painterly tableau in the guise of a fairytale." In 1957 Dallaire said, “One could say that I do not take life seriously. I always had a fondness for birds, little flags and the texture of fabrics. Perhaps it is a bit decorative, but so what.”[5][a]
Dallaire's eclecticism and attachment to figurative art have tended to make critics marginalize his work.[1] The first retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1968 at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.[2]
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The bust of Jean-Philippe Dallaire rests on a granite base. He wears a jacket under which one can see a turtleneck sweater. He looks away in a contemplative manner and surveys the view that surrounds him.