Joseph Giunta (1911–2001) was a

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painter whose career spanned over 70 years. He was born in

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and began painting at the age of 14. He studied the arts at the Monument National and at the

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. Giunta also studied with Adrien Hebert in 1925, Johnny Johnston in 1930, as well as in

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and

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. Throughout his career, Giunta's style evolved into 4 major styles: *Figuration (1931–1958) *Gestural Abstraction (1958–1975) *Geometric and Baroque Constructions (1971–1989) *Organic Collage-Paintings (1974–2001 Over the course of more than 60 years, Giunta participated in a host of solo and group exhibitions, including at Quebec City's Zanettin Gallery in 1965 and 1973, as well as at the Quebec Pavilion at the

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in 1970. In 2001, the year of his death, a major exhibit at the Maison de la culture Frontenac in Montreal, along with the release of filmmaker

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's ''Joseph Giunta: A Silent Triumph'', served to pay a tribute to the artist, repositioning Giunta within the artistic scene in Quebec and Canada.

External links

Bilingual website (English and French) dedicated to Joseph Giunta
1911 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters Painters from Montreal École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni 20th-century Canadian male artists {{Canada-painter-stub