Jean-Paul Jérôme was born in Montreal on February 19, 1928 and, well before he entered grade school, the native gifts that were to sustain his deep and lifelong commitment to drawing and painting were already made obvious. Such endowments led him to the Montreal School of Fine Arts where, from 1945 to 1952, he studied, as part of the regular curriculum, the art and technique of fresco painting, under the direction of Stanley Cosgrove. Then, after a short period of time during which he dedicated himself to landscapes and still lives, mostly after the cubist way, in as early as 1953, he shifted towards abstract painting, letting large swaths of evenly brushed paint drift on his canvas. His approach to art thus evolved more and more out of geometrical concepts, the reproductive outcome of which prompted his creation towards ambiances brought about by an absolute formal mastery.
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