Fortin, Marc-Aurèle National Historic Person
Laval, Quebec
Image of Marc-Aurèle Fortin
© Collection Bibliothéque et Archives, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, n.d.
Address :
219 Sainte-Rose Boulevard West, Laval, Quebec
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
2011-03-21
Life Date:
1888 to 1970
Other Name(s):
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Fortin, Marc-Aurèle
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
2010-039
Importance:
Talented landscape painter is distinguished by his remarkable paintings bearing lively and colourful witness to his love of nature
Plaque(s)
Born in Sainte-Rose, Marc-Aurèle Fortin was a landscape painter, print-maker, and a pioneer of modern art in Quebec between 1920 and 1940. He is known for a personal, figurative painting style characterized by the vivid use of colour, unusual effects of light and shadow, and uncommon perspectives and viewpoints. The majestic trees and other exuberant natural forms that populate many of his canvases convey a sense of loss at the passing of earlier ways of life in the province, while his paintings of the port and neighbourhoods of Montréal express fascination with the transformations of a city undergoing rapid industrialization.