Now

Challenging

350 Years of Art Practice in Québec

In the first half of the 20th century, challenges to an institutional academicism that had come to be seen as backward looking favoured the emergence of new cultural networks that advocated a conception of art foregrounding visual experimentation and artistic independence.

Feeling

350 Years of Art Practice in Québec

The presentation of various technical approaches that showcase the strengths and constraints specific to each discipline in the depiction of landscape offers a complete panorama of the evolution of this major genre in the history of Québec art.

Imagining

350 ans de pratiques artistiques au Québec

In this room, visitors will see an artist’s studio—that of Napoléon Bourassa—a political space and a religious space that, taken together, show the many forms assumed by art practices associated with commemoration.

Becoming

350 Years of Art Practice in Québec

This room contains a collection of painted and photographic portraits of well-known men and women, and of some lesser-known or unknown individuals considered either typical of their time or class, or unique.

Believing

350 Years of Art Practice in Québec

This room relates how various art practices emerged in the 17th century, a period dominated mainly by the importation of art works from France.

350 Years of Artistic Practices in Québec

To mark its 85th anniversary in 2018, the MNBAQ opened five new exhibition rooms devoted to ancient and modern art.