Olindo Gratton (1855-1941) - Religion et sculpture
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The death of Olindo Gratton, auxiliaire de la religion, did not represent the end of religious statuary production in Quebec any more than did the death of Louis Jobin in 1928. Besides Elzéar Soucy, Bourgault and Vallière, new generations of sculptors would want to provide the Quebec Church with its icons. The work of sculptors steeped in the ideals of the religious art revival movement — such as Armand Filion (born 1906), Marius Plamondon (1914-76), Louis Parent (1908-82), Sylvia Daoust (born 1902), Max Boucher (1918-75), and Émile Brunet — were featured in Arts et pensée magazine (Montreal) at the beginning of the 1950s. Through their discovery of the material's expressive qualities, they would contribute to the evolution of Quebec sculpture within the context of Modernity. Just the same, their truthfulness to subject matter and to fine textures would recall the academic aesthetic that Gratton employed. This constitutes another chapter in the history of Quebec art — it has yet to be written.
The death of Olindo Gratton, auxiliaire de la religion, did not represent the end of religious statuary production in Quebec any more than did the death of Louis Jobin in 1928. Besides Elzéar Soucy, Bourgault and Vallière, new generations of sculptors would want to provide the Quebec Church with its icons. The work of sculptors steeped in the ideals of the religious art revival movement — such as Armand Filion (born 1906), Marius Plamondon (1914-76), Louis Parent (1908-82), Sylvia Daoust (born 1902), Max Boucher (1918-75), and Émile Brunet — were featured in Arts et pensée magazine (Montreal) at the beginning of the 1950s. Through their discovery of the material's expressive qualities, they would contribute to the evolution of Quebec sculpture within the context of Modernity. Just the same, their truthfulness to subject matter and to fine textures would recall the academic aesthetic that Gratton employed. This constitutes another chapter in the history of Quebec art — it has yet to be written.
NOTE : les dates entre crochets (] sont un ajout; elles auraient paru redondantes dans le volume.
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