Name/Title
Les couleurs de Cezanne dans les mots des Rilke 4/ 100-EssaiEntry/Object ID
2013.02.01-04Description
Francine Savard (b. 1954, Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist whose paintings and installations are grounded in the geometric and colourful Plasticine traditions of Quebec. Her practice explores relationships between language and visual arts using colour, form, and patterns referencing text and ideas from literature. Savard translates her textual sources, such as books and poems, into visual language, creating sets of rules that adapt the sum of data into a pictorial composition.
In Les couleurs de Cezanne dans les mots des Rilke 4/ 100-Essai (1997), the artist uses letters written by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to his wife, in which he describes the colours he perceives in the paintings of Cézanne during an exhibition in 1907 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. Savard represented the descriptions by painting the colours on the strips of wood and canvas. She then added Rilke’s poetic words overtop, allowing the length of the description to determine the length of each strip.
After studying graphic design at the Royal College of Art in London, she earned her Masters in visual arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1994. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal.Artwork Details
Medium
vinyl paint on canvas mounted on fibreboard