Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Artist of the Day, December 29, 2021: Rose-Aimée Bélanger, A Québec Sculptor (#1456)

Rose-Aimée Bélanger (1923) was born in Guérin, Québec. She creates wonderful figures, full of life and humor in sandstone and bronze. Her subjects come from the people around her: her family, friends, and local characters she has met over her lifetime. They are shown in familiar attitudes, in repose and at work. Women holding bouquets, dreaming, relaxing, reading, picking berries or mushrooms, and coddling their children; men at work, or taking a lunch break. She sculpts people, with realism and candor, people of her own milieu. All her figures seem to be alive and not posed. They are tender and understanding, exuding an aura of calm and serenity. Shapes have become inflated, giving her figures gracious, yet heavy forms. Almost a paradox, she exploits this with much style and success. Her extraordinary aesthetics give the impression of lightness.

Shortly after graduating from Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, Rose-Aimée put her career on hold to devote her time to being a wife and mother. Some thirty years later, she resumed her sculpting, patiently and gradually, with great determination. To begin again in your late fifties, after a lapse of many years is rare. However, she has done so with panache. Still burning with zeal and energy, she is now into her mid-nineties, looking forward to her next project, her next show. She is definitely a master of bronze figures.

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Mme. Rose-Aimée Bélanger

Plénitude

Je suis une femme

Mon ame pour une frite

Duo

Méditation

De tout mon coeur

Mère et enfant sur l’épaule

Dans les géraniums

Marguerite

Complicité

Un temps pour soi

Maquilleuse

C'est si ssimple

Regina

Les Demoiselles

Bonnes nouvelles

Pour toujours

La Rêveuse

Béatrice

Balancoire à deux

 Un après-midi d'été

 S’envoler au vent

Rosalie

 Les Liseuses

 Le temps des cerises

Félicité

Bonbons

Ma dernière cigarette

Petite au Repos

 Les chuchoteuses

 Bleuets sur la colline



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