Jean Lurçat (1892/1966) was mostly a tapestry maker.
His work is bright, irradiated, and terrifying, full of some evil genius force.
Interstellar roosters fighting with burning aircrafts.
During the WWII, when dudes were scalping arms with nationalist arses, he was sewing visual diseases, and his highest ambition was to resurrect the art of tapestry in France.
Nice goal, right ? (well, he joins the communist resistant action with Tristan Tzara in june 44, everybody can has a little weakness…)
His artworks have to be seen in real or at least in books cause what we find on the internetz is definitely not the best and it misses some zoom, especially when you know that his tapestries can mesure around 100m²
His masterpieces are named: “Comme un Roc” 1945 (204/198 cm), “La naissance de Lansquenet”, 1946 (280/225 cm), “le Chant du Monde” (1957-1966) (ten monumental tapestries) exposed at Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine.
He revolutionized the world of tapestry by making it a full art: instead of reproducing and reinterpretate paintings (difficulties to transcribe transparancy etc), he started to use wool for his model.
So, he puts numbers the colors of the wool, from example 1 to 5 for all the kind of yellows from the brighter to the darker, then 6 to 10 for the red ones, etc.
He basically dialling every single part of his “ligne claire” drawing like a color book.
Which makes the render of his artworks really unique.
Read the wikipedo for more infos.
