An explosion of gorgeous colour greets the viewer’s eye in this extraordinary abstract painting by Paul Fournier. A master colourist, Fournier is considered one of Canada’s most significant artists. This piece in wildly expressive form and colour captures imagery from a tropical paradise—bright red feathers popping against a deep sapphire blue canvas and highlighted by a rainbow of colours—yellow at its center.
Fournier received early praise from the distinguished NY art critic, Donald Kuspit who described his colourful Fauvist-like work as that of an ‘exotic modernist.’ Fauvism was a post-impressionist movement in France (think Matisse) characterized by an imaginative use of colour. In the sixties, Fournier was part of a group of gifted Toronto painters…Milly Ristvedt, K.M. Graham and David Bolduc, among them who explored the techniques and forms of abstraction.
An explosion of gorgeous colour greets the viewer’s eye in this extraordinary abstract painting by Paul Fournier. A master colourist, Fournier is considered one of Canada’s most significant artists. This piece in wildly expressive form and colour captures imagery from a tropical paradise—bright red feathers popping against a deep sapphire blue canvas and highlighted by a rainbow of colours—yellow at its center.
Fournier received early praise from the distinguished NY art critic, Donald Kuspit who described his colourful Fauvist-like work as that of an ‘exotic modernist.’ Fauvism was a post-impressionist movement in France (think Matisse) characterized by an imaginative use of colour. In the sixties, Fournier was part of a group of gifted Toronto painters…Milly Ristvedt, K.M. Graham and David Bolduc, among them who explored the techniques and forms of abstraction.