L'ambiance attendue par le monde de l'art public à Montréal dans les années 1950 - Le discours d'humanisation de l'édifice et de la ville par l'œuvre murale abstraite géométrique vivement colorée
Résumé
Discourse analysis shows that transformation of the ambiance, considered dull and cold, of Montreal in the 1950s was meant by the actors of the public art world: artist, architect, sponsor and critic alike. Their writings reveal a shared agreement to the effect that brightly coloured abstract geometric mural must counter the so-called nudity of the modern building, humanizing it by its beauty and its vitality. This modern public mural is a major innovation because it modified the aesthetic conventions of figuration and faded ambiance by one more contrasted, and the symbolic convention of commemoration, thus transforming the urban ambiance.
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