<p>This beautifully crafted collection showcases Fox\u2019s artworks created over decades from his beloved Venice \u2014 the Paradise of Cities. Accompanying an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening in July 2025, the volume shows the artist\u2019s evolution from painting the heart of Venice to painting views of canals and squares in less familiar parts of the city. <\/p><p>Fox\u2019s watercolours and pencil drawings record a half-century of exploration and observation of the places that fascinated him. He returned to Venice again and again, at least once each year from the mid-1970s until 2008. Venetian colour and light were inspirational sources for all of his painting \u2014 abstract and representational images alike \u2014 and his approach was explicitly enhanced by the Venetian masters who revolutionized the act of laying paint on the canvas. <\/p><p>John Fox: A Painter in Venice | Un peintre \u00e0 Venise features over 75 reproductions of his Venetian paintings, drawings, and watercolours, and three essays about Fox\u2019s remarkable career by Victoria LeBlanc, John Leroux, and Sandra Paikowsky that explore his time in the city, his devotion to the authenticity of Venice\u2019s lesser-known neighbourhoods, and his very personal exploration of Venetian art and architecture. <\/p><p>Ce recueil ouvre une perspective fascinante sur le legs visuel de l\u2019artiste canadien John Fox (1927-2008) gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un magnifique agencement d\u2019\u0153uvres cr\u00e9\u00e9es \u00e0 Venise, ce \u00ab paradis des villes \u00bb, que Fox aura fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 pendant des d\u00e9cennies. L\u2019ouvrage accompagne une exposition que pr\u00e9sentera le Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts Beaverbrook en 2025. Il montre l\u2019\u00e9volution de l\u2019artiste qui, apr\u00e8s avoir privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 le c\u0153ur de la ville, a peint des vues de canaux et de places bien moins connus. <\/p><p>Les aquarelles et les carnets de croquis au crayon de l\u2019artiste, nombreux, rendent compte d\u2019un demi-si\u00e8cle d\u2019exploration et d\u2019observation de lieux qui le captivaient. Fox ira tr\u00e8s souvent \u00e0 Venise, o\u00f9 il s\u00e9journera au moins une fois chaque ann\u00e9e \u00e0 partir du milieu des ann\u00e9es 1970. Les couleurs et la lumi\u00e8re de la S\u00e9r\u00e9nissime ont inspir\u00e9 toutes ses toiles, abstraites et figuratives, sa mani\u00e8re \u00e9tant d\u2019ailleurs manifestement enrichie par la fr\u00e9quentation de ma\u00eetres v\u00e9nitiens qui ont r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 la peinture. <\/p><p><i>John Fox: Un peintre \u00e0 Venise<\/i> regroupe plus de 80 reproductions de peintures, dessins et aquarelles ex\u00e9cut\u00e9s \u00e0 Venise, et trois essais de Victoria Leblanc, John Leroux et Sandra Paikowsky, qui sondent la remarquable carri\u00e8re de cet artiste, ainsi que sa pr\u00e9sence dans sa ville de pr\u00e9dilection, son profond attachement pour l\u2019authenticit\u00e9 des quartiers moins connus et son exploration tr\u00e8s personnelle de l\u2019art et de l\u2019architecture v\u00e9nitiens. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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