The Needlepoint Tapestry Art to the Petit Point on canvas
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BIOGRAPHY OF ANNIE BOUQUET PAINTER AND "CARTONNIÈRE"

  • I - FIRST DRAWINGS

    As all children Annie Bouquet loved to draw. Her talent she holds from her father and her grandfather >>suite>>

  • I - A CHOICE

    After three years of studies in graphics advertising, and after a proposal offered by a very ancient manufactures >>suite>>

  • I - DECORATIVE ART

    which since centuries makes the renowned of the French spirit >>suite>>

  • II - UNIVERSE FOR LADIES

    The manufacture were created to the late nineteen century where the "Ladies's Works >>suite>>

  • II - LADIES'S WORKS

    She found also there these immense hanging wall tapestries intended for these citizens and spacious bourgeois houses >>suite>>

  • III - VARIETY OF THE BEAUTY

    Within this firm Annie Bouquet acquired real and original techniques to the "cartonnière" work and extend her knowledge of all styles from >>suite>>

  • III - EMBROIDERER AND CARTONNIER

    It is interesting enough to note that concerning embroidery and stitched tapestry to the Petit Point one forgets >>suite>>

  • III - PERSONAL CREATIVITY

    That is certainly the fact that the embroidery and the stitched tapestry or needlepoint use the personal creativity of each of us >>suite>>

  • IV - BAYEUX

    The oldest example known of this collaboration appears with this famous Tapisserie de Bayeux >>suite>>

  • V - THE COLORS COMBINATION ART

    Finally and especially the art of the "cartonnier" is, as for the tapestry of low or high wrap, the judicious choice of the colors >>suite>>

  • VI - SECULAR

    The difficulty comes from the few colors at the disposal of the cartonnier. It is therefore not only an extremely sharpened sensitivity to the color >>suite>>

  • VI - MASTERY

    Nevertheless, we have only to admire these sumptuous XVth to the XVIIIth century woven tapestries to realize the extraordinary possibilities of this art of the combination >>suite>>

  • VII - BRUSHES

    To this art of the color that holds the cartonnier , he or she associates an other which is the Art Painting >>suite>>

  • VII - NEEDLES

    Painting with the needle is also an expression to determine a work where the number of colors and their juxtaposition really make feel as seing a painting >>suite>>

  • VIII - SILK-SCREEN

    These three techniques use indiscriminately the "Hand Painted" appellation. An alone can truly to claim it >>suite>>

  • VIII - HAND PAINTED WITH THE BRUSH

    For some stitcher one get out of the " needle painting" because one loses there these subtle nuances and these imperceptible shades >>suite>>

  • VIII - STENCIL KEY SET

    These Artiste come from branches of industry quite distant of printer and their more or less toxic odors >>suite>>

  • IX - SMELTING THE COLORS

    Here is one among the most significant challenge that were posed to the weaver and to the stitcher from all pasts centuries up today >>suite>>

  • X - THE GRADATION & THE NUANCE

    Only, therefore, the brush allows to visualize this fineness of the gradation and only the lissier and the stitcher can interpret this gradation according to their own techniques >>suite>>

  • XI - SIGNATURE

    All paints are signed. However once ended, never embroidery nor tapestries are. Only works of >>suite>>

  • XI - TAPESTRY

    Paris to get the works created by such or such "cartonnier"artist. They are the Americans who have shown the way >>suite>>

  • XII - SENSITIVITY

    experience of the cartonnier, the pallet of colors and finally the mode and the quality of their reproduction on the support>>suite>>

  • XII - TO REVEAL

    This hand painting
    "to the brush"  is not only the most authentic expression of the cartonnier, >>suite>>

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