Good understanding
Tapestry woven in the DMD workshop, in Tournai.
With its label.
1989.
Edmond Dubrunfaut can be considered as the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving workshop in Tournai in 1942, then created the Tournai Tapestry Renovation Centre in 1947. He provided numerous cartoons for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit,…) intended to decorate Belgian embassies around the World. Moreover, Dubrunfaut, from 1947 to 1978, taught monumental art at the Mons Academy of Fine Arts, then, in 1979, participated in the creation of the Tournai Foundation for Tapestry, Textile Arts and Wall Arts, a veritable conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. His style, figurative, often using strong color contrasts, is highly inspired by animals and nature (like Perrot, for example, the artist has a strong tropism for ornithology).
The title refers to the artist's concerns about social harmony: the human figure, omnipresent at the beginning, returns to illustrate an irenic theme.
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalog Dubrunfaut and the tapestry renaissance, paintings, drawings, paintings, Museum of Fine Arts Mons, 1982-1983.
