Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: L’hommage a Rosa Luxemburg
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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L’hommage a Rosa Luxemburg
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Alternate Title:
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Hommage to Rosa Luxemburg
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Image View:
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Detail, end of second panel ("element"), bird silhouette with everyday objects interspersed
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Creator:
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Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canadian painter, 1923-2002)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 1996.96
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Location Note:
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Pavillon Pierre Lassonde; From exhibition, Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation (October 12, 2017-January 7, 2018)
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GPS:
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+46.798889-71.224722
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Date:
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1992 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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mural painting (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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triptych
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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acrylic paint and spray paint on canvas
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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155 cm (height, 1st panel) x 1424 cm (width, 1st panel)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; animal; contemporary (1960 to present); cycles or series; muse; birds; found objects
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Description:
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A large triptych of three panels (all 155 cm height, but widths of 1424, 1247, and 1368 cm each). The work is a narrative sequence of 30 paintings (sections) forming a triptych more than 40 meters in length. It is in a sense Riopelle’s legacy work, which he began in his studio on Île-aux-Oies in November 1992 after learning of the death in Paris of his former companion, the American painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). The title of this piece comes from the anecdote according to which Riopelle, when they were together, called Mitchell his “Rosa Malheur” (“Rosa Misfortune”), a reference to Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), a brilliant painter of animals whose last name means “good fortune”. Rosa was also the first name of the German Communist Party activist Rosa Luxemburg, who was famous for her coded prison letters. (Source: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec [website]; www.mnbaq.org/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RIOPELLE-TRL-C05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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