Jean-Paul Mousseau

By 1955, Mousseau was exhibiting work similar in aims to Les Plasticiens, a group of artists who had broken away from Les Automatistes to achieve effects through tone, texture, form and line in highly ordered paintings characteristic of the de Stijl group.

[2] In 1963, 1967 and again in 1997, retrospectives of his work were held (in 1997 curated by Pierre Landry for the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal with an extensive chronology[3]).

His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Musée d'art contemporain, among others.

Mousseau wished to open the doors to non-figurative art integrated into the architecture and accounted for in the construction budget.

Lapalme held sway over the initial network, except for two works (Mousseau's Circles at Peel station[4] and Marcelle Ferron's stained glass at Champ-de-Mars).