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Bruno Côté Canadian Quebec artist, Bruno Côté was born in Quebec City in 1940. Côté began painting shortly after entering his family’s advertising firm at age 17. He worked as a letter maker until gradually climbing the ranks to artistic director and once he fell in love with painting, he quickly devoted himself entirely to his practice in the years that followed. In 1978, Côté moved to the Charlevoix region where he painted the landscapes tirelessly again and again, this gained him an important place in the artistic history of the region. Throughout his life, Bruno has travelled throughout Quebec and the rest of Canada to paint his colorful landscapes. Like other Quebec painters before and since, Bruno Côté wasn’t afraid of using colour, often quite surprising ones. In many paintings, it appears he deliberately tries to surprise the viewer, bathing a landscape scene in purples, golds, blues, reds and any other strong colour his imagination could conjure. Bruno Côté used the entire colour wheel. Some of his works are pure landscapes, pure colour experiments. Other scenes show signs of human life: shacks, cottages, small villages. Some of Bruno Côté’s favourite vistas are panoramic, starting with a view down a hill to a lake, with mountains looming up past the water, topped by a swirling sky. Bruno Côté was considered one of Canada’s finest landscape painters prior to his death in 2010. His paintings continue to be sought after by art collectors, who recognize Bruno Côté has followed in the footsteps of the Group of Seven and others who have sought to bring the natural world to life in paint. |
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