Challenging. Modern Art in Québec
Permanent exhibition
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec Québec, Québec
Photo credit:
Randolph Stanley Hewton, ...
Following its complete redesign for the opening of the Espace Riopelle, the gallery devoted to the modern national art collection offers an extensive overview of art from this period, focusing on artistic subjectivity and appreciation of form.
Around 50 artists featured, including 24 women. They grouped into thematic sections that present the major trends and events in the history of modern art in Québec.
The exhibition opens with a rich selection of portraits and urban scenes, as the city became a popular subject for artists in the early decades of the 20th century. It also shows how, in the 1930s and 40s, Québec artists reinvented figurative art, pursuing innovative formal experiments and asserting absolute creative freedom.
The exhibition opens with a rich selection of portraits and urban scenes, as the city became a popular subject for artists in the early decades of the 20th century. It also shows how, in the 1930s and 40s, Québec artists reinvented figurative art, pursuing innovative formal experiments and asserting absolute creative freedom.
Type of exhibition
Permanent
Participation
In person
Type of exhibition
Permanent
Participation
In person