Another factor, “their tempestuous (to say the least) relationship,” Martin writes, helped keep comparisons to a minimum. As Martin says, he wants to offer a fresh take on all that purity, muddied with the all too human. You can see both their harmony and their disconnect: him experimenting with her loose, lyrical style and sometimes gaudy use of colour (Riopelle’s Non, non, non, non, non . Since the early ’70s, Riopelle had been spending more and more time in Quebec, their union slowly dwindling toward its end. She didn’t like his hunting, because hunting meant Canada and Canada meant he was gone.

Source: thestar February 16, 2018 23:52 UTC