« La cage aux oiseaux » (Birdcage)
Aubusson tapestry woven in the workshops Pinton.
With its bolduc, no. 1/6.
Circa 1980.
Although, in his youth, he was a designer of silk textiles and the creator of large-format paintings serving as manifestos for exhibitions (for example, “la peste en Beauce” from 1953 measured 250 x 360 cm), Lorjou’s interest in tapestry was late: perhaps he considered the harshness and sturdiness of his style to be unsuited to weaving (besides, his close associates—Rebeyrolle, Mottet, Sébire, …—will never themselves be woven). In the 1970s his style became more dreamlike and less expressionist: that is when he produced Cartoons for the Atelier Pinton.
The chromatic range and motifs of birds are characteristic of Lorjou of the 1970s; the material quality of the paintings is rendered in tapestry through differences in weaving points.
