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AN ETERNAL PASSION FOR COLOR, Francoise Cauvin’s pictorial fi eld is fi lled with a multitude of fi gures, shapes and colors that dialogue, oppose each other and connect in a natural way, without any prior construction, without any objective to reach. The starting point is the line, in complete freedom, the pencil stroke as a sort of initial intention, and the work is then constructed by aggregating forms and colors which enter a relationship because of their similarities or possible harmonies. For her colored works, her production follows the path opened by Vassily Kandinsky in
the 19th century. One thinks of her American contemporary, Leonard Nelson, spotted
by Peggy Guggenheim in the 1940s to represent the avant-garde of New York abstract
expressionism, or of the Belgian Pierre Alechinsky, a founding member of the Cobra
group, represented today by the Galerie Lelong. Many of Françoise Cauvin’s works are also very close to those of the Dutch artist Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo). Born a few years before her, his paintings have recently been the subject of multiple retrospectives both in France and abroad.
But we also fi nd in the work of Françoise Cauvin-Monet’s work, the state of mind of
the early narrative fi guration narrative of the 1960s, which would make possible the
free fi guration of Combas and Basquiat... Her work evokes the little stories of Jan Voss,
for example, mixing animals, characters and plants that he superimposes, adds to and
intertwines...
But on the other hand, Françoise Cauvin profoundly marks all her works
with her femininity. The object, the subject, is feminine, the line is feminine, the
sentence is feminine.
Less dreamlike than Chagall, she is nevertheless infl uenced by him. Especially in terms of themes: childhood, which she evokes in the same happy way as he did, the omnipresent animal world, the couple that merges into a single being, the fascination for circus artists... but also the rhythm of the canvas and the mixture of symbolic, stylized drawing and contrasting color. Picasso said of Marc Chagall : « I don't know where he gets these images; he must have an angel in his head », and this is the feeling one gets when faced with Françoise Cauvin’s works, an abundance and a fairytale that unfolds throughout the works.
Between figurative abstraction and free figuration, surrealism or even art brut... Françoise Cauvin wanders as she pleases, crossing the multiple artistic trends of her century.
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« The path my pencil takes on the sheet of paper has, in part, something analogous to the gesture of the man who, groping, sought his way in the darkness. I mean that my journey is not planned: I am led, I do not lead. »
Henri Matisse
Abstract Work
by Françoise Cauvin-Monet
« I am often asked what my painting hides.
Nothing ! I paint visible images that evoke something incomprehensible »
René Magritte
Oeuvre Abstraite par
par
Françoise Cauvin-Monet
« We are always influenced. As a follower, we imitate; as an innovator, we still imitate while modifying. »
Roger de la Fresnaye
Figurative Abstraction
by Françoise Cauvin-Monet
« If every life inevitably moves towards its end, we must, during ours, color it with our hues of love and hope. »
Marc Chagall