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Serge Lemoyne, painter (born 13 June 1941 in Acton Vale, QC; died 12 July 1998 in Montreal, QC).
Career Highlights
A member of the avant-garde, Serge Lemoyne was considered a pioneer of performance art in Quebec in the 1960s, with improvisations such as la Semaine A (1964), or his "happenings," which incorporated the use of his "splash" technique of tossing paint onto the artwork support.
Serge Lemoyne preferred popular subjects for his paintings, as in his celebrated "red, white and blue" period in which he employed colours based on the Montreal Canadiens uniforms. Shunning academicism in his work and all outward manifestations of the institutionalization of art, Lemoyne was perhaps the first Québécois pop artist.
A retrospective of his work was mounted by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) in 1988.
