Jules Pansu uses Jacquard weave technique. A form of textile art dating as far back in written history as Homer's Iliad, tapestry making is a long-standing tradition in the heritage and culture of France. Since the Middle Ages, weavers in Paris, northern France and the Val-de-Loire regions have created intricate and enduring tapestries that can still be admired in the national museums and castles of France. In 1660, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance for Louis XIV, founded Les Gobelins Tapestry Manufactory followed by the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais. The tapestries created at the Gobelins Manufactory, as well as those from the workshops of Aubusson and Felletin, were the finest produced in Europe throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Tapestries were often based upon the work of famed painters of the day, including Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Charles Coypel and Francois Boucher. Today, in the workshops of Jules Pansu in Halluin, the company continues to specialize in the Jacquard weave, named after the craftsman Joseph-Marie Jacquard who invented the process and loom that allowed for much greater versatility and artistry in weaving. In an intimate interview, Joan Punyet Miró (Miró "grandson) explained that this painting expressed great strength, and is his favorite. It was painted four years after the triptych of the large Blue canvasses exhibited at the Pompidou Center. It is unique by its total detachment of the form. It is the return of dreamlike paintings, a freedom similar to the one we find in the American Abstract Expressionism of the 50´s. Miró was a Spanish painter that combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy to create his lithographs, murals, tapestries, and sculptures. His mature style evolved from the tension between his fanciful, poetic impulse and his vision of the harshness of modern life.In spite of his fame, Miró, an introvert, continued to devote himself exclusively to looking and creating.
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