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1964-74
White on White

Introduced here are three early painting periods, the murals of 1967-69, small maquettes from 1969-74 and the pen and ink drawings from 1964-68. Also here is an introduction to Bloore's single significant sculpture series, the Sploores of 1970-74.

   

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1965

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murals

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1969

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maquettes

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1973

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drawings

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sploores

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Direct links to Series Pages are at the top.

In 1962 Bloore received a Senior Arts Fellowship Grant to live and work for one year on the Greek island Lesbos amongst his beloved Byzantine destinations. Towards the end of this sojurn, after a visit to Egypt, he destroyed all the work he had done there, then went back to Regina and eliminated almost all the paintings he had done before the trip.

If Bloore “broke the sound barrier” in 1958, he broke the speed of light in 1963. He had always known why he wanted to paint. Art had been a kind of religion to him since he was five years old. In Regina he had worked out how he, himself, could be a painter. In the mosques of Istanbul and the temples of Egypt he found WHAT he needed to paint. And it was white.


   

1964-66

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After Egypt

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1965, Painting No.9, 61x91cm, oil on masonite, James Rottman Fine Art (650090023)

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Murals, 1966-68

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Murals in Quebec and Prince Edward Island and...

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1968, Mural, oil on masonite, Dorval Airport Montreal

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1967-70

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Back to Toronto

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1971, 43x96", 109x244cm, oil on masonite

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Small Maquettes
1967-74

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Small Maquettes Overview

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Facture Facture
Paint Paint

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1969, April No.1, 143 x 140mm, oil on masonite, Private Collection, click to see larger

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Small Maquettes Overview


   

1970-74
After the Arctic

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Beyond Symbology

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White Painting,

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Drawings, 1964-68

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The Last Pen and Inks

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c.1966, ink on paper, about 22x30cm

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Sploores, 1970-74

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Spoons Turned into Bloores

In 1970, the artist began idly fiddling with some wooden spoons he had picked up during his travels. This quickly evolved into a surprising sculptural series called Sploores completely unconnected to his work as a painter.

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1971, painted hardwood, 29 x 16 x 8cm, Private collection Toronto

A classic Sploore flanked by a couple of improvised doggies made from window blind mounts.

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1964-74
period page

← Before 64 / TOP / 1975-87 →

WORKS PERIOD PAGES

Before ’64 Early Days
1964 to ’74 White on White
1975 to ’87 Back to Toronto
1987 to ’99 Synthesis
2000 to ’07 Anti-synthesis

MODE OVERVIEWS

Works on Paper
Small Maquettes
Black Works
Works With Colour
Sploore Sculptures

MISCELLANEOUS

Sunday Sketches
1975-76 Sketches
Working Drawings
Oil Working Drawings
SERIES PAGES

’54 TO ’64
pre-’58 abstracts
58-59 enamels
59-60 relief
60-61 signs
61-62 mandalas
62-63 white lines
60-63 others
59-63 drawings

’64 TO ’74
64-66 after Egypt
67-68 murals
67-70 after Regina
70-74 after Cape Dorset
67-74 maquettes
64-68 drawings
70-72 sploores
SERIES PAGES

’75 TO ’87
75-76 byzantine lights
77-80 Sackvilles
79-83 stick relief
83-84 chasubles
80-84 stick chasubles
85-86 assemblages

78-79 Sackvilles on paper
1980 mixed media on paper
80-83 sumi ink on paper
80-81 gouaches on paper
1982 chasuble sketches
85-86 template drawings
1987 paper collages

80-83 small inkworks
80-81 large inkworks
80-83 very large inkworks
80-81 extra large inkworks
SERIES PAGES

’87 TO ’99
87-88 the X's
88-90 grand diptyches
91-93 squares continue
93-94 4-by-4's continue
1994 inkworks on paper
94-97 white white gold
97-98 brushed lines
98-99 News Series I

2000 TO ’07
2000 New Series II
01-02 move to Spadina
2003 back on the horse
2004 late series begin
04-05 back to the square
05-06 an old man's style
06-07 the Yellow Series
2007 the Last Series
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