Horizon bleu (blue horizon)
Tapestry woven by the Atelier 3 workshop for the Attali gallery.
With label, n°1/6.
1976.
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A protagonist of geometric abstraction and, as such, championed by the Denise René gallery, a major promoter of abstract tapestry (‘Distances’, was woven in 1973, one of the last cartoons to be woven by Tabard for the gallery), Morisson stands out for his compositions in bands chromatically harmonised in gradations. This is the aesthetic that prevails in our tapestry; although the A3 studio has been best known for weaving lyrical abstracts (Alechinsky, Arthus-Bertrand, Miotte...), which are more conducive to technical side-steps, the spectrum of its creations is actually very broad : Cathelin, Malel, Lindström, Druillet.... or, geometrical too, Mortensen.
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Le cirque (circus)
The artist Marguerite Louppe, married Maurice Brianchon in 1934. She then went on to assist him regularly with the realisation of large-scale decorative mural work; in the same way, when Jacques Adnet approached Brianchon in the 1940’s to ask him to work on tapestry cartoons, Louppe would also contribute some of her own designs. The style (use of perspective and shading ...) the themes are usually (except from our cartoon, with a more working-class inspiration) a throw-back to the classical decorative tradition “à la française” of which Adnet and the Compagnie des Arts Français considered themselves the advocates : soon however, Lurçat and his followers would sweep aside this aesthetic despite its obvious successes.Aubusson tapestry woven by the Pinton workshop. Circa 1945. -
Composition
Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four workshop. N°EA2. Circa 1980.An artistic all-rounder, who defined himself as “neither a painter, nor a draughtsman, nor a poster artist, nor a writer, nor an engraver. My work is neither abstract nor figurative ... I do not pretend to understand my images, and everyone is free to understand them as they like. I have merely tried to represent my own imaginings, in the hope that others will be able to recognise their own in them”, Folon was an incredibly successful artist, from his illustrations for famous American magazines in the 1960’s, his many poster designs, the works he presented at the Biennials in Venice and in Sao Paolo to the television credits for Antenne 2,... There is therefore no reason to be surprised that he also turned his hand to tapestry design (his largest piece, 80m2 is exhibited at the Centre des Congrès in Monaco, woven, as all his other works in the genre, by the Four workshop), in his characteristic airy and understated style whose inspiration is not a thousand miles from that of his compatriot Magritte. The aesthetic employed in our tapestry is directly descended from watercolour (pale colours that melt into one another), his preferred medium (there is also a lithograph), which makes his work specific and a world away from that of other painter-cartoonists of the same period. The representation of the sun as an eye,a leitmotiv in Folon’s work, overlooking a landscape, bears witness to the particular dream-like character of the universe his art inhabits.
