Quebec artist Paul Béliveau paints culturally significant artifacts such as his own book collection, creating ‘pictorial archeology’ in work that references a database of thousands of personal and historical photographs.
Béliveau says, “I like to use painted books as a strategy against loss, even though worn books evoke the passage of time and reveal one’s own finiteness.” –Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Paul Béliveau’s website, here.
Canadian Art Junkie 
I like it. Paul makes me want to judge books by their covers. Clever!
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Great comment. Love it.
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Canadian Bright Light… I went to Windsor Gallery site and it rolled through some shots of these on the wall – they are beautiful big..
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And I also love his colors, thanks.
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interesting combinations….good portraits of culture read!!
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I agree on the combinations. Very creative, kind of little cultural portraits, aren’t they?
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Interesting; not sure how I feel about this as art, and I always welcome feeling unsure as a kind of portal into wider vision…so, thank you! Certainly, Mr. Beliveau is making choices regarding color, theme, design, and it’s intriguing.
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I’m with you on the uncertainty. And I probably did his talent a disservice by just posting the book-literary works. He certainly does other wonderful work. But I was taken by the precision/reality of these.
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