Lesson 989

ABOUT DENY CLOUTIER Since the early 1980s, he has painted on community television. The pleasure of painting what the beauty of nature presents to us is at the heart of his passion. In 1988, he held the largest solo opening in the world, a collection of 760 paintings. He managed to paint the smallest canvas that is, with an area of 6 mm x 6 mm, the dimensions of a coin of 10 cents. From March 12 to 19, 1994, installed at the Galeries de la Capitale, in Quebec, he still beat his productivity record by making 1011 canvases of 20 by 24 inches, in 83 hours, sold on-site for the benefit of the Quebec section of the Society. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. Since the early 1980s, he has also made himself known in Quebec and in several other Canadian provinces, notably through television to reveal the little secrets of his art. For fifty years, Deny Cloutier has perfected an impressive technique for composing landscapes of striking realism and surprising beauty. With brush stro