Blanche Tejada (1916 2011) - Le contrat

Very beautiful brut art piece on wood panel with acrylic painting, dating from 1983, signed bottom right and on the back (73/92 cm)

Blanche Tejada is a brut art artist born in 1916 and died in 2011


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Where to place this creator, once it is clear that she is resolutely outside the norms? Is she "naive"? Is she "brut"? Or simply Blanche Téjada, carefree about any kind of classification?
"Naive" she is, certainly, in her deep concern with everyday life, the preoccupation for her immediate surroundings that, beneath their apparent wanderings, express themselves in her paintings: Rue du Pressoir, Capharnaüm, Maternity, etc. But from this tendency, she never has the stiffness characteristic of naiveté; her characters are always in motion! Naive, she would be more so because of the "simplicity" of the contours that, with their seeming clumsiness but their true skill of line, bring her back to her origins, to her states of mind of yesteryear, at least to the sincerity of childish productions! Naive again, and so playful, in her habit of laying out dreams? worries? of her creatures (birds, spider webs...) as if they "thought" with brains/garbage bins! Or of completing the ovoid in which she consciously or unconsciously places her groups with a hoop of ink, as if they were jumping rope with tiny silhouetted figures on the blank page!

A rock of brut art, she is also, by the deep psychological involvement that radiates from her works, the instinctive creativity perceptible in each of them!
But so varied, realized in tapestries made of interlaced fibers, networks of offset plates, cut-outs from newspapers and heavy metallic ribbons that reveal, in their arabesques, unexpected faces!
Highly sought after by brut art collectors because rare in singular and brut art museums, her painting cannot leave one indifferent."