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Still Life in Green

Still Life in Green
Still Life in Green by Jacques de Tonnancour, oil on canvas, 76 x 101.5 cm. Photo: Bernard Clark. Source: City of Kingston Civic Collection.
Jacques de Tonnancour’s(1917-2005) early works were influenced by fellow Canadian artist Goodridge Roberts’ landscapes. He later adopted a much more modern, European aesthetic, using an approach that allowed him to cleverly manipulate the spaces he depicted. In Still Life in Green, 1953, de Tonnancour plays with perspective to produce a distorted representation of a table.
Les premières œuvres de Jacques de Tonnancour ont été influencées par les paysages de Goodridge Roberts, un autre artiste canadien de son époque. Il a adopté par la suite une approche esthétique européenne, nettement plus moderne, qui lui a permis de manipuler avec ingéniosité les espaces qu’il peignait. Dans Still Life in Green, de Tonnancour joue avec les perspectives pour produire une représentation déformée d’une table.
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Gallery:
Out of the Vault
Date:
1953
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Civic Collection
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  • Art Collection Society of Kingston
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  • Jacques de Tonnancour
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Canadian Art

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