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#ZNH-019 LITHOGRAPH"Les Trois Graces" by Normand Hudon
A Limited Edition Lithograph on Paper
Paper size: 24 x 21
Image size: 20 x 16
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Normand Hudon
HISTORY & BACKGROUND
Hudon was born in Montréal in 1929. He eventually reached the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and then the Académie Montmartre in Paris (1949). In the city of Lights, he met many influential personalities including Picasso and Léger.
Over the years, children ,fantastic houses, awkward priests and quixotic lawyers have filled his canvases revealing an exquisite sensitivity and tenderness rather unexpected in this pitiless opponent.
Not surprisingly, drawing is essential to his compositions. Hudon works to deform the familiar to express his point of view. His apparent naiveté can not hide the critic within the artist.
Hudon often uses mixed media. His colours, both sombre and highly contrasted, underline the purpose of the drawing. The black of clothing (priest’s and lawyer’s robes) offsets red noses and ruddy cheeks. Using people and objects for his own purposes, Hudon constantly shows movement. His compositions show oblique and staircases. The overall impression the spectator gets from Normand’s work is one of laughing naughtiness. The artist draws upon daily life in popular neighbourhoods where the authentic can be picturesque. Hudon irreverence strikes the dull world of clerics and judges where solemn silliness and conservatism take refuge. The artist and his have helped open the minds in our society, more than our public figures , politicians or others.
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