Fine agreement
Tapestry woven in the DMD workshop, in Tournai.
With its bolduc.
1989.
Edmond Dubrunfaut may be considered the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving workshop in Tournai as early as 1942, then in 1947 created the Centre for the Restoration of the Tournai Tapestry in Tournai. It will supply, for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit, ...), numerous cartoons intended in particular to decorate Belgian embassies across the world. In addition, Dubrunfaut, from 1947 to 1978, taught monumental art at theAcademy of Fine Arts of Mons , then, in 1979, took part in the creation of the Foundation of Tapestry, Textile Arts and Wall Arts of Tournai, a veritable conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. His style, figurative and relying on strong contrasts of colours in many instances, is greatly inspired by animals and nature (as with Perrot, for example: the artist has a strong predilection for ornithology).
The title refers to the artist's concerns with social harmony: the human figure, omnipresent in his early work, returns to embody an irenic theme.
Bibliography:
Exhibition catalogue Dubrunfaut et la renaissance de la tapisserie, tableaux, dessins, peintures, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 1982-1983.
