Yvon d'Anjou
Yvon d'Anjou (born June 12, 1940 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian artist based in Quebec City. Yvon d'Anjou works on many types of surfaces including wood, masonite, canvas, and paper, but works almost exclusively with tempera. "Timeless Tunnels to Infinite" is a series in this medium.
By the early 1960s, d'Anjou was starting to gain a reputation as a skilled commercial artist. In 1963, he joined the Quebec sovereignty movement. Also during this time he helped to start the Quebec Journal in Quebec City. d'Anjou returned to Montreal in 1965, joining the art staff of the Journal de Montreal. He work commute during the night hours through the city inspired his artistic visions of shape, color and texture, resulting in d'Anjou's departure from the Journal de Montreal to devote his life to his art in an artist colony in Quebec's Latin Quarter on the Rue de Tresor.
His works were soon featured on the covers of two major magazine publications: Culture Vivante, a magazine published by the Cultural Affairs Department of the Government of Quebec, and Mainmise, which is published both in France and the Province of Quebec. His art also escalated into the world of pop art. Examples include the cover of a Uriah Heep album cover and the book cover for The Aquarian Wave. His original art found its way into the private collections of Tennessee Williams and Pierre Trudeau, and onto the walls of the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. and London, and into L'Annuaire de Art International.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20111003162553/http://www.biographicon.com/view/heuu1
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090803180346/http://www.ruedutresor.qc.ca:80/francais/anjou.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100201023505/http://www.ruedutresor.qc.ca:80/anglais/artist.html
- http://www.repertoiredesartistesquebecois.org/nouvelle.asp?art=1836
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