René PERROT

First an affichiste, then an artist-ethnographer during the war, Perrot began his work as a painter-cartoonist at the end of it: he designed nearly 500 cartoons, earning numerous commissions from the State (33 cartoons; Perrot was the 20th-century painter-cartoonist most represented in the collections of the Mobilier National!), most of them woven in Aubusson. His highly decorative, shimmering style is extremely characteristic: treated in flat areas (without shading, without accents), a profusion of animals (most often birds) stands out, without perspective, against a vegetal background, in the spirit of medieval mille-fleurs tapestries.

“Mixed” cartoon, vegetal and animal, where the usual birds are fused into a floral setting, as in the cartoon “la jardin de Sophie”, but with the eruptive blossoms of “Bouquet d’artifice”.

Bibliography:
Tapestry, drawings, paintings, engravings by René Perrot, Dessein et Tolra, 1982
Cat. Expo. René Perrot, mon pauvre cœur est un hibou, Aubusson, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, 2023