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Members included Marcel Barbeau , Roger Fauteux , Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau , Fernand Leduc , Jean-Paul Mousseau, and Marcelle Ferron.
The movement may have begun with an exhibition Borduas gave in Montreal in 1942. However, "les Automatistes" were soon being exhibited in Paris and New York also. Though it began as a visual arts group, it also spread to other forms of expression, such as playwrights, poets, and dancers.
The title "les Automatistes" came from journalist Tancrede Marcil Jr., in a review of their second exhibit in Montreal (February 15 to March 1, 1947), which appeared in Le Quartier Latin (the University of MontrealMotto: Fide splendet et scientia ( Latin: "May it shine with truth and knowledge" Founded 1878 School type Public Rector Robert Lacroix Location Montreal, Quebec Enrollment 41,340 undergrad, 13,125 grad (including Polytechnique and Hautes Etudes Commercia's student journal).
In 19481948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 1 Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Ital, Borduas published a collective manifestoA manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. In the United Kingdom, and in some other parliamentary democracies, political parties prepare electoral manifestoes which set out both their strategic direction a called the Refus global, which is considered an important document in the cultural history of Quebec. Although the group dispersed soon after the manifesto was published, the movement continues to have influence, and may be considered forerunners of the Quiet RevolutionJean Lesage, Daniel Johnson Sr. and Rene Levesque, three prominent actors of the Quiet Revolution. The Quiet Revolution Revolution tranquille was a period of rapid change in Quebec in the 1960s. It was characterized by: The rapid and effective secularisat.