-Aubusson greenery tapestry cardboard, painted canvas

-Cardboard serving as a full-size model for weaving greenery.

-Faithful to the tradition of Aubussonnaise greenery, this green landscape allows us to see several birds in a natural setting. The background is decorated with a body of water. In the distance, a ruin with a few buildings complete this picturesque landscape by adding depth.

-Technique: oil painting on canvas
-Total dimensions: 2.98 m (width) x 2.38 m (height)
-Wear, folds and cracks should be reported.
-Period: 20th century

-The cardboard is the full-scale model from which the weaver creates a tapestry. Placed under the loom, it guides the weaver during weaving. The cardboard boxes are made by specialists, cardboard painters.
A true link between the artist and the artisan weaver, one of the particularities of the work of the cardboard painter, subject to the constraints of weaving, is to transpose onto a “cardboard” support (rag paper, later thick paper then canvas) a work imagined on a small format model by an artist.
To do this, the cardboard painter enlarges the pattern to scale, depending on the desired dimension for the tapestry. While doing this, he reworks the pattern so that it can be easily translated into a tapestry by the weavers. It is therefore not a painting established with all the freedoms of plastic expression that an artist can use when painting a picture. The cardboard artist must impose certain constraints depending on the particular technique of tapestry using a textile raw material (wool and/or silk). Also, the shapes must be painted precisely: the different color zones must be clearly demarcated.
Since cardboard is a working tool, they are often cut into vertical strips to facilitate weaving in the horizontal direction. In addition, the paintings are often damaged for the purposes of weaving (cut, cracked, pinholes, etc.). Also, the success of a tapestry model can be assessed by the wear of its cardboard.
After the closure of many factories and workshops, from 1985 onwards, these painted works left the workshops to be dispersed on the art market. They are regularly used today as wall decoration.

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