Claude Tousignant

Claude Tousignant
Born (1932-12-23) December 23, 1932 (age 91)
Montreal, Quebec
EducationSchool of Art and Design at the MBAM
Known forPainter, Sculptor
Notable work"Chromatic accelerator" series
MovementPlasticiens, Tachism
AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts

Claude Tousignant OC RCA (born December 23, 1932, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian artist.[1] Tousignant is considered to be an important contributor to the development of geometric abstraction in Canada.[2][3][4] He masterly used alternating values of complementary colours in innovative ways in his circle/target paintings.

  1. ^ "Claude Tousignant". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Monochrome Crimson, 1981". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  3. ^ Canadian Art. Society for Art Publications. 1964.
  4. ^ Joan Murray (1 November 1999). Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Dundurn. pp. 99–. ISBN 978-1-55488-120-8.