François FAUREAU

François Faureau's path is truly singular. Born in Aubusson, he attends the courses of the ENAD, then under the direction of Marius Martin, who already promoted large-scale weaving and counted tones, which Lurçat would later adopt as his own. Thus, he took part in the ENAD stand at the International Exhibition of the Arts décoratifs in 1925 as a painter-cartoonist with the tapestry "Solitude, verdure" or the screen "Canards," which oscillate between a classicizing style and the influence of Cubism. He would later have his own workshop, but his oeuvre remained relatively unknown, far from the leading figures of the "Renaissance of Tapestry." Back in Aubusson in 1962, after a long absence, Faureau devoted all his energy to Tapestry, as both cartoonist and weaver.

His aesthetic was then less radical than in the 1920s, and the traditional themes still prevail: one can feel the influence of Lurçat, as well as that of Perrot.