Contemporary Tapestry
Contemporary artists create cardboard boxes to be made in tapestry.
We then speak of cardboard artists who, drawing on a commission or personal work, have their works executed by liciers from tapestry factories like those of Aubusson or independent workshops.
Among the best known, we can cite Pierre Saint-Paul, Jean Picart le Doux, Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Jacques Lagrange, Enrico Accatino, Marc Petit, Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff, Victor Vasarely, Charles Lapicque, Alfred Manessier, Jean Le Moal, Henri-Georges Adam, Édouard Pignon, Gustave Singier, Jean Labellie, Claude Lagoutte, Nicolas Carrega, André Lanskoy, Alberto Magnelli, Michel Seuphor, Ossip Zadkine, Anne Aknin, Olivier Debré, André Brasilier and, above all, Jean Lurçat and Dom Robert who greatly participated in the renewal of tapestry in the second half of the 20th century.
But some artists like Josep Grau-Garriga have been able to make the tapestry evolve towards another world: from a figurative tapestry it has gone to a relief and abstract tapestry until going towards a tapestry-sculpture (or three-dimensional tapestry) . Grau-Garriga learned tapestry in 1958 from Jean Lurçat. He considered that to be a true work of art, the tapestry had to be created and woven by the artist himself, as was the case for André Barreau (creator-lissier).
At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and at the Académie des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs in Tournai, there is still a tapestry workshop where student-artists can enjoy high-lice and low-lice crafts. for their own creation.