Background
Jean-Paul Jerome was born on February 18, 1928 in Montreal, Canada.
Jean-Paul Jerome was born on February 18, 1928 in Montreal, Canada.
Since 1945 to 1952, Jean-Paul Jerome studied at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, where the learned art and technique of fresco painting under the direction of Stanley Cosgrove.
In 1953, after a short period of time, during which Jean-Paul dedicated himself to landscapes and still lives, mostly after the cubist way, he shifted towards abstract painting, letting large swaths of evenly brushed paint drift on his canvas.
In 1955, along with other painters, he founded the Plasticien Movement.
Since 1956 to 1958, in order to further his creativity, Jerome lived in Paris, where he met Giacometti and Vasarelly and shared with René Mortensen a common passion for achieving a perfect harmony between shapes and colours. He also made friends with sculptor Émile Gilioli and Hans Hartung and associated with Martin Barre’s studio.
In November 1958, he was appointed a teacher at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, where students also benefited from his art, knowledge and craftsmanship.
In 1973, the painter quited teaching and devoted himself entirely to his art.
During his lifetime, Jerome took part in different solo and group exhibitions.
Jerome was mostly known as one of the founders of Plasticien Movement.
Jean-Paul's works are kept in numerous Canadian private and public collections. In 2003, the Musée du Bas Saint-Laurent paid him a warm tribute as they displayed a retrospective exhibition of his paintings, the whole of which, in the course of the next four years, was presented throughout Canada at large.
Abstraction of lines and curves
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Sentiers
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Le Récepteur de Lumière
Paradis bleu
Silhouettes
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Murailles de verre
Les Relais Futures
Les ficelles tirées du fantastique
Les fleurs du Sultan
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Astre-bleu
Monde nostalgique #3
Sirènes des rois
La ronde marine
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Quotations: "I have been attracted all my life to perfect shapes, to colourful overstones."
Jean-Paul Jerome was able to express himself through a variety of materials and sensibility in the most diverse manner: his oil and acrylic paintings rest on wood, glass, pottery, tapestry and stained-glass as well as on art papers and cardboards, among numerous other media, where he could give vent to a vast array of pastel, charcoal, red chalk and sepia drawings, that ranged well beyond already high standards of his own.
