Menhirs Loquaces – Gérald Brault

Gérald BRAULT (1929- 1998) – Acrylique sur toile signée et numérotée, datant de 1972, mesurant 20×16 pouces

et titrée Menhirs Loquaces

Montréal born Gérald Brault. erudite and accomplished, studied at the Institute of Applied Arts, worked on wood sculpture with Louise Parent, ceramics and modelling with Jean Cartier and Gilles Derome. He studied drawing with Moe Reinblatt at l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal and studied art history at both l’Université de Montréal and l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

As well as being a committed artist painter and sculpture, Gérald Brault was a Science teacher, scholar and researcher, writer and poet. He was a founding member of the Conseil de la peinture du Québec (1966), the Société des arts visuels de Laval (1987), the Commission consultative des arts de Laval and defender of artists’ rights.

Brault published numerous texts on the visual arts. In the late 1950s, Gérald Brault became interested in modeling and sculpture. He had been passionate about painting since the early 1970s. Several individual and group exhibitions marked his artistic career, the most important of which were Québec 84 (1984) and Métapeinture II presented at the Salle Alfred-Pellan of the Maison des arts de Laval in 1991.

In 2003, five years after his death, the Centre de créativité le Gesù in Montreal dedicated a major retrospective to him: Dessin, dessein, destin. (Document accompanying the retrospective at the Salle Alfred-Pellan, Maison des arts de Laval, 2005).

His highly valued works are included in many important National and International collections, and well regarded in private, corporate, and public institutions.