This beautifully crafted collection showcases Fox's artworks created over decades from his beloved Venice -- the Paradise of Cities. Accompanying an exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening in July 2025, the volume shows the artist's evolution from painting the heart of Venice to painting views of canals and squares in less familiar parts of the city.
Fox's 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 -- abstract and representational images alike -- and his approach was explicitly enhanced by the Venetian masters who revolutionized the act of laying paint on the canvas.
John Fox: A Painter in Venice ] Un peintre a Venise features over 75 reproductions of his Venetian paintings, drawings, and watercolours, and three essays about Fox's remarkable career by Victoria LeBlanc, John Leroux, and Sandra Paikowsky that explore his time in the city, his devotion to the authenticity of Venice's lesser-known neighbourhoods, and his very personal exploration of Venetian art and architecture.
Ce recueil ouvre une perspective fascinante sur le legs visuel de l'artiste canadien John Fox (1927-2008) grace a un magnifique agencement d'oeuvres creees a Venise, ce << paradis des villes >>, que Fox aura frequente pendant des decennies. L'ouvrage accompagne une exposition que presentera le Musee des Beaux-Arts Beaverbrook en 2025. Il montre l'evolution de l'artiste qui, apres avoir privilegie le coeur de la ville, a peint des vues de canaux et de places bien moins connus.
Les aquarelles et les carnets de croquis au crayon de l'artiste, nombreux, rendent compte d'un demi-siecle d'exploration et d'observation de lieux qui le captivaient. Fox ira tres souvent a Venise, ou il sejournera au moins une fois chaque annee a partir du milieu des annees 1970. Les couleurs et la lumiere de la Serenissime ont inspire toutes ses toiles, abstraites et figuratives, sa maniere etant d'ailleurs manifestement enrichie par la frequentation de maitres venitiens qui ont revolutionne la peinture.
John Fox: Un peintre a Venise regroupe plus de 80 reproductions de peintures, dessins et aquarelles executes a Venise, et trois essais de Victoria Leblanc, John Leroux et Sandra Paikowsky, qui sondent la remarquable carriere de cet artiste, ainsi que sa presence dans sa ville de predilection, son profond attachement pour l'authenticite des quartiers moins connus et son exploration tres personnelle de l'art et de l'architecture venitiens.
