Paul vanier beaulieu biography

He then worked in a Montreal Café until he had sufficient money to travel to Paris in 1938.
Biography.
Beaulieu was born in Montreal on March 24, 1910 to a distinguished family residing on Saint Louis Square.

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Paul-Vanier Beaulieu

(1910 - 1996)

Canadian artist Paul Vanier Beaulieu was born on March 24, 1910 in Montreal on the Carré Saint-Louis. Coming from a wealthy family, the young Paul is introduced to art by the great interest his parents had for the subject. He began his studies at the Montreal School of Fine Arts with Stanley Cosgrove and Jean-Paul Lemieux. He left for France in 1938, to take inspiration from the great artistic movements of the time. There he meets Pablo Picasso, whom he will visit regularly at his workshops. He began his Parisian studies at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, which he left after a year, attracted by contemporary art of the time. The war interrupts the Parisian discoveries of the young artist, with his brother Claude, Paul Vanier Beaulieu becomes a civilian prisoner, as Jean Dallaire during a period of 4 years. This internment did not prevent him from creating sublime works that would be called the "St-Denis period", the name of the prison he was imprisoned in. He returned to Quebec in 1945, where he organized an exhibit

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Paul Vanier Beaulieu's career as a young painter took shape at a time when a dynamic current of revitalization was sweeping Quebec's cultural scene. The movement ultimately fostered the advent of modernity in art owing to the initiatives of its main proponents: John Lyman, Alfred Pellan and Paul-Émile Borduas. During the years Beaulieu spent studying at the Montreal School of Fine Arts, his classmates included Stanley Cosgrove and Jean-Paul Lemieux, who would be at the vanguard of artistic innovation in the 1940s. Yet, although he shared the same natural inclination for freedom as his fellow artists, he did not have the opportunity to join their ranks at the Contemporary Arts Society when it was founded in 1939. As it turned out, he had left for Paris in 1938 so as to tap directly into the source of artistic renewal that he had seen beginning to emerge in Quebec's art community. Nor was he able to witness the enthusiastic reactions of living art advocates upon viewing the paintings Pellan had brought back from Paris on his return in 1940. As a Canadian British subject, Beau

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BEAULIEU, Paul-Vanier (1910 – 1996)

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is the eldest of seven children. His father who enjoyed painting as a hobby is a barrister.

Paul spends four years at the École des Beaux Arts de Montréal, spread over two periods from 1927 till 1930 and from 1936 till 1937, where Robert Pilot teaches him etching.

At the Beaux Arts, his friends are Jean Paul Lemieux and Stanley Cosgrove.

Disappointed by the academic teachings of the École des Beaux Arts, he opens in 1930 a commercial art studio with Gonsalve Desaulniers, who leaves after one year. Although the difficult context of the 30’s Beaulieu manages to make a living for six years. A meeting with a café owner brings him to be hired as a waiter at the café, where he luckily is allowed to exhibit his paintings.

In 1938, he’s saved enough money to travel, and makes his way to Paris, where he joins his brother Claude who’s been there since 1935, it exposed him to the political, intellectual and artistic stimuli of pre-war Paris. Paul Beaulieu met several leading artists there, including Pablo