After 25 years of fulfilling her roles as wife and mother, Rose-Aim\u00e9e was finally able to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming an artist.<\/p>\n
To this end, she took two courses in clay modeling in 1969 and 1970 with the late Madame Claude Papineau-Couture, who at the time was working with the Northern Ontario Artists' Cooperative (CANO). She also set up a small studio in the basement of her home.<\/p>\n
Success was not long in coming, and within the first year she made her first sale to a private collector in Sudbury. During the '70s, she made several sales there, but soon realized that she couldn't keep up the momentum without outside help. She therefore decided to take advantage of her husband's regular trips to southern Ontario to contact various art galleries.<\/p>\n
In the early '80s, after a dozen years of intense artistic creation, Rose-Aim\u00e9e felt the need to explore new avenues. In fact, for the first twelve years, Rose-Aim\u00e9e worked mainly on her forms, mounting her sculptures with colombins, and using as raw material stoneware with 25% grog, which she fired at high temperature to vitrify it.<\/p>\n
In the early years, since stoneware lent itself well to her sculptural style, Rose-Aim\u00e9e felt no need to question this choice. In fact, her early sculptures were mainly of figures, both male and female, from their everyday life. So, for example, the figures were tree planters, mine workers, village women and so on.<\/p>\n
Over time, however, the sculptural form became an increasingly important part of her creative process. As she says herself:<\/p>\n
\"I want to exploit all the facets of volume. Over time, my figures must become more and more graceful and sensual, while at the same time becoming more and more imposing. In fact, I'm looking for the balance between fragility and curves.\u201d<\/p>\n
In pursuit of the ideal she had set herself, she decided to take a clay modelling workshop in 1981 at the Junior School of the Arts for Northern Ontario (JSANO) in Kirkland Lake with Diane Mooney, then, in 1982, a drawing workshop with live models at the Canadore College Summer School of the Arts in North Bay.<\/p>\n
She also had the intuition to combine the texture of stoneware with the luminosity of bronze. A wise decision, since with this change Rose-Aim\u00e9e's creative output literally exploded, with the advent of a whole series of prestigious works.<\/p>\n","masquer":true,"nom_pour_le_tri":"B\u00e9langer","biography":"
Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer exhibits her work in Montr\u00e9al since 1995. She began her artistic formation at l\u2019\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts de Montr\u00e9al in 1945. However, it was not until 30 years after, and 8 children later, that she finally began to sculpt and create full time. Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer\u2019s inspiration comes from the simple moment of every day life. In her feminine sculptures, her \"rounds\" as she likes to call them, it is sight that's essential to their understanding and appreciation, as it will convey the essence of her works. The emotions are amplified by the sensuality of the curves and the heat from the bronze. There is a serenity surroundings B\u00e9langer\u2019s \u201crounds\u201d ; they breath calmness allowing one to do the same in their presence. Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer's sculptures are collected worldwide both privately and publicly. She was born in Gu\u00e9rin Qc in 1923. <\/p>\n","social_links":[{"acf_fc_layout":"facebook","url":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/galerieartblanche\/"},{"acf_fc_layout":"google_+","url":""}],"photo_artiste":{"ID":34289,"id":34289,"title":"B\u00e9langer Rose-Aim\u00e9e","filename":"Belanger-Rose-Aimee-.jpeg","filesize":363600,"url":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee-.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/en\/artist\/rose-aimee-belanger\/belanger-rose-aimee\/","alt":"","author":"6","description":"","caption":"Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer est une artiste qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise connue pour ses sculptures en bronze de femmes rondes, notamment \"les Chuchoteuses\" du vieux-Montr\u00e9al.","name":"belanger-rose-aimee","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":27157,"date":"2016-07-04 18:45:18","modified":"2016-09-23 20:01:37","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1192,"height":1794,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee--66x100.jpeg","thumbnail-width":66,"thumbnail-height":100,"medium":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee--340x512.jpeg","medium-width":340,"medium-height":512,"medium_large":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee--680x1024.jpeg","medium_large-width":680,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee--718x1080.jpeg","large-width":718,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee-.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1021,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee-.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1192,"2048x2048-height":1794,"expo_banner":"https:\/\/galerieblanche.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Belanger-Rose-Aimee--1192x500.jpeg","expo_banner-width":1192,"expo_banner-height":500}},"afficher_les_prix":false,"videos":[{"video_youtube":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WEisDvS_w1s","nom_de_la_video":"The world of Rose-Aim\u00e9e B\u00e9langer"}],"grille":false},"yoast_head":"\n