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Jean-Paul Riopelle

1923 - 2002

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Jean-Paul Riopelle, (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the Refus Global, the 1948 manifesto that announced the Quebecois artistic community's refusal of clericalism and provincialism. He is best known for his abstract painting style, in particular his "mosaic" works of the 1950s when he famously abandoned the paintbrush, using only a palette knife to apply paint to canvas, giving his works a distinctive sculptural quality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Paul Riopelle has received more than 299,758 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Paul Riopelle is the 1,237th most popular painter (up from 1,342nd in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 250th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Painter.

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  • 17

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  • 3.83

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  • 2.32

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Paul Riopelle ranks 1,237 out of 2,023. Before him are Adriaen Coorte, Roger de La Fresnaye, Franciabigio, Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Bartolomeo Veneto, and Bernard Picart. After him are Otto Muehl, Paul Renner, Adriaen Isenbrandt, Charles de La Fosse, Gyula Benczúr, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jean-Paul Riopelle ranks 192. Before him are Václav Ježek, Sam Francis, Simeon ten Holt, Norberto Méndez, Valentin Varennikov, and José Giovanni. After him are Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Milt Jackson, Zeffiro Furiassi, Richard Herrmann, and Josep Seguer. Among people deceased in 2002, Jean-Paul Riopelle ranks 143. Before him are Yevgeny Svetlanov, Ted Williams, B. D. Jatti, Ramón Grosso, Vitaly Solomin, and Arno Peters. After him are Masakatsu Miyamoto, Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Héctor Trujillo, Eugene Odum, Anatoli Bashashkin, and Eddie Bracken.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jean-Paul Riopelle ranks 192 out of 1,622. Before him are Neve Campbell (1973), Diana Krall (1964), Bret Hart (1957), Maynard Ferguson (1928), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), and Garou (1972). After him are Norman L. Bowen (1887), Louis Jolliet (1645), Oliver Platt (1960), René Lévesque (1922), Cindy Breakspeare (1954), and Harold Innis (1894).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Jean-Paul Riopelle ranks 4. Before him are Maud Lewis (1903), Jeff Wall (1946), and Emily Carr (1871). After him are Philip Guston (1913), Agnes Martin (1912), John McCrae (1872), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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