Guido Molinari


1933 - 2004

Les Plasticiens, Order of Canada, RCA

Serigraph on paper, 1971
22 x 22 in

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Oil on Canvas, 1954
19.75 x 24 in

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Guido Molinari Biography

1933 - 2004

Les Plasticiens, Order of Canada, RCA

Guido Molinari was born in Montreal in 1933. He studied briefly at the School of Design at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1950-51), and began making drawings and paintings combining automatic methods with a disciplined approach. He was a leader in the development of a rigorous colour abstraction movement in Montreal. Characteristic of his paintings in the 1960s were vertical, hard-edged bands of colour. Pictorial space in these paintings was created by the spectator’s perception of the shifting and mixing of colours.  In 1956 Molinari was a founding member of the Association des Artistes Non-Figuratifs de Montreal. He exhibited at the Biennale in Venice in 1968, where he was awarded the David E. Bright Foundation prize. In 1977 he participated in the Paris Biennale, and in 1980 he was awarded the Paul-Emile Borduas Prize by the Quebec government. Molinari, who taught at Concordia University until 1997, exerted a powerful influence on younger artists, through his teaching, his theoretical writing and his opinions, firmly held and strongly stated.
Watercolour on paper, 1955
20 x 26 in

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Oil, 1953
7.5 x 10.25 in

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Oil on Canvas, 1954
12 x 16 in

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Acrylic on Canvas, 1962
60 x 5018 in

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Oil on Canvas, 1955
20 x 2358 in

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Oil, circa 1953
8 x 10 in

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