The PICTORIAL TECHNIQUES
of Françoise Cauvin-Monet's works...

« Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it. »
Friedrich Nietzsche

Françoise Cauvin was as free in her technical approach as she was in her choices of subjects and styles.Typical of the artists of her time, she used any new media she could and privileged those which suited best her talent:those which allowed her to work quickly, capture the moment, or avoid any preparatory work on either the support or the colors.
On a same work, you may see gouache, bic, felt-tip pen, pencil, pastel and sometimes even collage. On others, only ink and watercolor overlays. Yet some are painted in oil or acrylic. Françoise Cauvin explored and experimented. One could easily identifie series of works that were created when she was discovering a particuliar technique. It was the medium itself that was the subject of her research.
She mainly worked on drawing paper, sheet or cardboard and chose small formats. Sometimes she sliced the support to suit the work while creating it.

Consciously or not, she favored a way of working that enabled her to join the very two things that characterise her work.the most. A will to make visible the drawing lines, and a certain use of colors. Lighter and more transparent waterbased materials which offer variations of intensity, enabled her to dialogue with precise black lines and overlay or juxtapose a wide variety of colors or patterns. She did not explore depht, but rather emphasized on lightness, dillution, digression, on the intensification of movement, or conversely on the breaking point. There is an endless interplay between these two techniques which complexifies the work, emphasizing, complementing, or halting a line.

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