Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Breeze, Claude |
Title |
Island's Edge II (ed. 9/10) |
Accession # |
998.1.66.2 |
Object Type |
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Date |
1987 |
Medium |
woodcut |
Support |
paper |
Dimensions |
H-98 W-64 cm |
Description |
The evocative, intensely-coloured paintings of Claude Breeze are a testament to the artist's association with social protest. Breeze's paintings typically portray television news and the disjunction between the reality and the viewer. Biographical Information: Claude Herbert Breeze (born 1938) is a Canadian artist and Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is also sometimes known as C. Herbert . Born in British Columbia, Breeze was raised by his grandparents in Saskatoon. After studying at the University of Saskatchewan, Breeze returned to the West Coast in 1959 for further study at the Vancouver School of Art. A central shift in Breeze's practice occurred in the early 1960s when his close friend Gary Lee Nova shared his observations of British Pop Art with Breeze. From this point forward, Breeze would begin to incorporate Pop-like elements into his paintings, and is credited - along with Lee Nova - with creating the first expressions of Pop on the West Coast of Canada. Breeze was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1974 and was presented with the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 1978 in recognition of his contribution to Canadian art. The artist has had an extensive teaching career, holding positions at Simon Fraser University, the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, the University of Calgary, and the Emily Carr School of Art. Breeze was the Artist-in-Residence from 1972 to 1975 at the University of Western Ontario, and currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at York University. Claude Breeze lives in Toronto. |