A Life Shaped by Line and Light Born in 1915 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada, Benoît East developed a visual language that was deeply rooted in the discipline of formal training. His path was defined by the halls of the École des beaux-arts de Québec, where he studied between 1934 and 1940, and again from 1944 to 1945. This period of rigorous instruction provided the foundation for a career that would eventually span the realms…