[4] Bruneau had a direct approach, using bright colours and a free gestural manner to portray figures and objects combined in compositions that have their roots in the world of poetry and dream.
Other artists who explore this territory include in Quebec, Alfred Pellan and Jean Dallaire; and internationally, Joan Miró, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky.
[1] She collaborated with Leonard Cohen, Claude Haeffely, Françoise Bujold, Michaël La Chance and other poets to produce work that combined literature and the visual arts.
[1] Bruneau's work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[8] Canada Council Art Bank,[9] Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[10] and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.
Bruneau became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[3] She died at the age of 91 on 6 April 2021.