NOTE: THERE IS NO COURSE WITH ADMISSION FEE FOR THE 2011 SPRING-SUMMER SEASON.
But the following activity is free of charge.

Canadian Art: The Limits of Painting

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is pleased to host the annual lecture series on Canadian art presented by François-Marc Gagnon, Director of Concordia University’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. This series was presented in French in April.

Wednesdays, May 4, 11, 18 and 25
at 3.30 p.m., in English
Maxwell Cummings Auditorium

May 4 — Words
In the seventeenth century, it was said that painting was mute speech. But soon enough, artists found the means to make their paintings speak, either by adding captions on cards or ex votos, words attributed to the Angel and the Virgin in Annunciation scenes, or by writing words on banners or inscribing messages directly on the canvas.

May 11 — Movement
How can painting suggest movement? Time-lapse photography showed the way for the Cubists and Futurists. In Canada, Alfred Pellan integrated their teachings into his own art. Another option was to guide the movements of the eye, as Paul-Émile Borduas did in his large black-and-white canvases.

May 18 — Time
Like movement, time cannot be captured in a painting. And yet, the portrait is intended to be a way of evoking the past and resisting time (portraits of nuns in early Quebec art). But attempts have nonetheless been made to transpose the effect of music into painting (Suzor-Coté and Brandtner).

May 25 — Emotions
The world of the emotions is more directly expressed in theatre and film. We will see how religion and history put constraints on early Quebec art in exploring the entire range of emotions. In contemporary art, photography and video have taken up this task.

The Museum extends its thanks to Concordia University’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art for its collaboration on the presentation of this programme.

 

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NOTE : THERE ARE NO EXCHANGING GLANCES MEETINGS DURING THE 2011 SPRING-SUMMER SEASON

 

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NOTE: there are no "Art Walks" during the 2011 Spring-Summer season.

 

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Concert

In fall 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will inaugurate its new Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion of Quebec and Canadian Art, as well as the Bourgie Concert Hall. This new hall will have benefited from a state-of-the-art restoration. The hall’s exterior, interior decoration and impressive group of Tiffany stained-glass windows will have been enhanced and restored down to the last detail.

As of September 2011, the Arte Musica Foundation will be offering music lovers programming specially designed for the new Bourgie Concert Hall.

The programming will be unveiled over the course of this coming summer. Between now and then, be the first to discover some of the upcoming concerts of the 2011-2012 season by visiting our website.

To whet your appetite, the Arte Musica Foundation is proud to present two concert series performed by Les Violons du Roy. [Monday, March 7: and three chamber music concerts offered by musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM), as part of the series “Musical Canvases.”]

Enjoy discounts and choose your seat in the new Bourgie Concert Hall by subscribing now to the Violons du Roy concert series. [Monday, March 7 or by purchasing tickets for the “Musical Canvases” concert series offered by musicians of the OSM.]

Subscriptions and tickets: 514-285-2000, option 4
(Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.)

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