Louise Robert

{{Short description|Canadian painter (born 1941)}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Louise Robert | honorific_suffix = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|12|13}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = Painter | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards =  | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }} '''Louise Robert''' (born 1941)<ref name="Ledelarge " >{{cite web |title=ROBERT, Louise - Le Delarge -Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains |url=https://www.ledelarge.fr/16320_artiste_ROBERT_Louise |website=Le Delarge |accessdate=11 December 2018|language=fr}}</ref> is a Canadian painter who uses writing in her work.

==Life and work==

Louise Robert was born in Montreal, Quebec.<ref name="Ledelarge " /> She is a pharmacist by training<ref name="Quebecor " >{{cite web |title=Compter le temps de Louise Robert à l'Espace musée Québecor |url=https://www.quebecor.com/en/-/compter-le-temps-de-louise-robert-a-l-espace-musee-quebecor |website=www.quebecor.com |date=12 November 2019 |publisher=Quebecor, 2019 |access-date=2021-08-05}}</ref> and a self-taught artist who paints by delving into the paint of her canvas.<ref name="Joliette " >{{cite web |title=Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry |url=https://www.museejoliette.org/en/expositions/louise-robert-painting-and-poetry |website=www.museejoliette.org |publisher=Musée d'art de Joliette |access-date=2021-08-05}}</ref> Robert incorporates writing into many of her works, a process she continues to explore.<ref name="Joliette " /> Critics say her work shows the influence of surrealistic automatic writing.<ref>A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada</ref>

Robert had her first solo exhibition in Montreal in 1969.<ref name="LernerWilliamson1991 " >{{cite book|author1=Loren Ruth Lerner|author2=Mary F. Williamson|title=Art Et Architecture Au Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gquqnLOBH9gC&pg=PA92|year=1991|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-5856-0|page=92}}</ref> She has been widely exhibited in Canada and internationally since the 1970s. In 1983–1984, her work was shown in a solo show at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris and at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Bruxelles. In 2020, her exhibition titled ''Louise Robert: Painting and Poetry'' was held at the Musée d'art de Joliette.<ref name="Joliette " /> Her work is included in many group shows and private and public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Canada,<ref>{{cite web |title=Louise Robert |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/louise-robert |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=2021-08-05}}</ref> the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Musée d'art de Joliette.<ref name="Quebecor " />

She lives and works in Montreal.<ref name="Ledelarge " />

==Notable collections== *''Nº 78-45'', 1981, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec<ref name="n7845 " >{{cite web |title=Nº 78-45 |url=https://www.mnbaq.org/en/collections/work/n-78-45-600038998.pdf |website=Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec |accessdate=11 December 2018}}</ref>

==Further reading== *Daigneault, Gilles. ''Louise Robert. Into the Words''. Joliette: Musée d’art de Joliette (2003). {{ISBN|2-921801-23-X}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Robert, Louise}} Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian women painters Category:Expressionist painters Category:Painters from Montreal Category:Canadian painters Category:Canadian abstract artists