Louise Robert
{{Short description|Canadian painter (born 1941)}}
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Louise Robert (born 1941){{cite web |title=ROBERT, Louise - Le Delarge -Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains |url=https://www.ledelarge.fr/16320_artiste_ROBERT_Louise |website=Le Delarge |accessdate=11 December 2018|language=fr}} is a Canadian painter who uses writing in her work.
Life and work
Louise Robert was born in Montreal, Quebec. She is a pharmacist by training{{cite web |title=Compter le temps de Louise Robert à l'Espace musée Québecor |url=https://www.quebecor.com/en/-/compter-le-temps-de-louise-robert-a-l-espace-musee-quebecor |website=www.quebecor.com |date=12 November 2019 |publisher=Quebecor, 2019 |access-date=2021-08-05}} and a self-taught artist who paints by delving into the paint of her canvas.{{cite web |title=Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry |url=https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/louise-robert-painting-and-poetry |website=www.museejoliette.org |publisher=Musée d'art de Joliette |access-date=2021-08-05}} Robert incorporates writing into many of her works, a process she continues to explore. Critics say her work shows the influence of surrealistic automatic writing.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Robert had her first solo exhibition in Montreal in 1969.{{cite book|author1=Loren Ruth Lerner|author2=Mary F. Williamson|title=Art Et Architecture Au Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gquqnLOBH9gC&pg=PA92|year=1991|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5856-0|page=92}} She has been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally since the 1970s. In 1983–1984, her work was shown in a solo show at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris and at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Bruxelles. In 2020, her exhibition titled Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry was held at the Musée d'art de Joliette. Her work is included in many group shows and private and public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada,{{cite web |title=Louise Robert |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-robert |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=2021-08-05}} the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Musée d'art de Joliette.
Notable collections
Further reading
- Daigneault, Gilles. Louise Robert. Into the Words. Joliette: Musée d’art de Joliette (2003). {{ISBN|2-921801-23-X}}
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Category:Canadian women painters
Category:Expressionist painters