Artistic Career
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and other sources divide Jean Paul Lemieux's career into five periods:
- the Montreal period (1926–1937), marked by realistic naturalism influenced by Quebec regionalists and, later, European postimpressionist modernism.
- the Primitive period (1940–1947), focused on "anecdote and accumulated scenic detail" (MNBAQ).
- the Minimalist period (1951–1955), with cubist structures, signals a major turning point in the artist's career.
- the "Classical" period (1956–1970), with a "figurativeness dear to Lemieux, albeit fuelled by the sources and practices of abstract art" (MNBAQ). It is in this period that Lemieux produced the paintings of lonely figures in desolate, simplistic landscapes for which he is so well known today.
- the "Expressionist" period (after 1970), presenting humanity living in a bleak, hopeless world..
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