page_title: André Fontaine (painter)
section_title: A futurist artist
hierarchical_section_title: André Fontaine (painter) / A futurist artist
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Painter of the stars, Andre Fontaine and his works .
context_page_description: André Fontaine was a painter known as "The Painter of the stars" and a newspaper journalist. He founded his movement in painting, in Quebec, being the first to use fiberglass. He was recognized worldwide and skirted famous names, including Walt Disney who dedicated a Mickey Mouse cartoon published in newspapers around the world.
context_section_description: Fontaine, whose works were winning for the first time in 1953 internationally from more than 5,000 exhibits.
  In 1963, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him a medal and a scholarship for his artworks and his research, including creating a new painting medium the "texmos". The following year, he won the gold medal of the "American Architectural Association". Then a bright future for this emerging artist who is gaining popularity and is known throughout the great capitals of the world for its unique art he created. His art is his vision
  of the infinite universe, a step in the future, marking the time by his modernism. Numerous exhibitions of his works are connected and major U.S. and foreign personalities buy the paintings by. The new composition of his paintings give a three-dimensional effect. In the U.S., we know it mainly by his last name "Fontaine". Thus in 1965 the famous Walt Disney immortalised Fontaine in a Mickey Mouse comic published worldwide, in which the nephew of Mickey shows that he got the autograph of the painter Fontaine, "the fastest in the world" as that 'he says. In 1966, the Wowetco, organizing artistic and cultural works takes him under contract and his works are exhibited throughout the world. Andre Fontaine, father of his art, "cosmonitic art", he created, its revolutionary medium, which he called "the Texmos" in 1963.
  The small little boy from Quebec has exceeded the boundaries of his country not only Canada and the United States, but he managed to make himself known in the greatest capitals of the world! And his works are in museums of contemporary art.
caption: Fontaine and his painting
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