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MODERN CHANGES IN THE ROARING TWENTIES Adrien Hébert, peintre de la métropole moderne

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Length

2h00

Language

French

Audience

Adults
65 and up
Young adults
For Members only

Type of activity

Lecture

Mode

In Person
Major Partner

Free (service charge applies).

Wednesday April 13, 2022 at 01:30 pm

A hundred years ago, in the aftermath of the First World War and Spanish flu epidemic, Western societies enjoyed a period known as the “Roaring Twenties.” Although landscape painting and the peasant figure were major fixtures of Quebec art at the time, some artists from this era featured other aspects in their work.

A painter par excellence of modern Montreal and the hustle and bustle of its harbour and commercial streets, Adrien Hébert offers us a rich portrait of the city's growth after the First World War. This lecture will go through a selection of his works to provide insight about Hébert’s career, his thoughts on art, and how he was perceived by his contemporaries.

This lecture is presented thanks to the support of Magdeleine Loevenbruck.

Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium

Face covering required for the duration of the event

Esther Trépanier is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at UQAM, where she taught from 1981 to 2020. She also served as the executive director of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from 2008 to 2011 and as the director of the École supérieure de mode de Montréal from 2000 to 2007. She has written a great deal on Quebec and Canadian art from the first decades of the twentieth century and on questions related to modernity. Some of her publications include Peinture et modernité au Québec, 1919-1939 (Éditions Nota bene, 1998) and Jewish Painters of MontrealWitnesses of their Time, 1930-1948 (Les Éditions de l'Homme, 2008). Exhibitions that she has curated or contributed to include Marian Dale Scott. Pioneer of Modern Art (MNBAQ, 2000), Women ArtistsConquering a Space: 1900-1965 (MNBAQ, 2009) and Fashion and Appearance in Quebec Art, 1880-1945 (MNBAQ, 2012). 

She has given lectures at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for many years and also wrote an essay in the exhibition catalogue for 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group (MMFA, 2015). 

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