Painter Who Works Fast
Elizabeth Taylor, BobbyKennedy and the governments of Brazil and Mexico are listed among the patrons of Claude A. Fontaine. Fontaine is a Canadian and sometimes author who settled down to paint on an island in the Caribbean. His gimmick is a neat one: he paints with fibreglass liquid. He dyes the liquid all the colours of the rainbow and then applies it hurriedly to a canvas or plastic base. Fontaine has to work fast since the fibreglass liquid dries in a matter of minutes and can’t be erased. So, by necessity as well as by choice, he is something of an action painter. (Incidentally, his.., productions are so durable you can tramp on them or leave them in the rain overnight.) Most of his work is bizarre and primitive. He bombards the canvas with way-out streaks and blobs of the brashest colours. You need a nerve to get away with such creations.
Obviously- some will hate his paintings. Others will find a lot of spirit in them. The series on music is literally painted jazz—it really swings.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30636, 30 December 1964, Page 6
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