Blanche Tejada (1916 2011) - Le contrat

Very beautiful raw art brut work on wood panel and acrylic painting, a piece dating from 1983 signed at the bottom right and on the back (73/92 cm)
Blanche Tejada is a raw art artist born in 1916 and died in 2011


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Where to place this creator, once it is specified that she is resolutely outside the norms? Is she "naive"? Is she "brute"? Or simply Blanche Téjada, carefree of any classification?
"Naive" she is, certainly, by the great concern for everyday life, the preoccupation for her immediate surroundings that, beneath their apparent wanderings, express themselves in her paintings: Rue du Pressoir, Capharnaüm, Maternité, etc. But from this tendency she never shows the rigidity characteristic of it, her characters always in motion! Naive, she would be more so because of the "simplicity" of the contours that bring her back, through their seeming clumsiness but their true skill with the line, to her origins, to her past states of mind, in any case to the sincerity of childlike productions! Naive again, and so playful, by her habit of spreading dreams? worries? of her creatures (birds, cobwebs...) as if they "thought" with brains/ baskets! Or to complete the ovoid in which she places, consciously or not, her groups with a hoop of ink, as if they were playing jump rope with tiny silhouetted individuals on the blank page!
A bedrock of Art Brut, she is also, by the deep psychological involvement that emanates from her works, the instinctive creativity perceptible in each of them!
But so varied, realized in tapestries made of interwoven fibers, networks of offset plates, cutouts from newspapers and heavy metallic wrappings revealing, in their arabesques, unexpected faces!
Highly sought after by brut art collectors because rare in museums of singular and brut art, her painting cannot leave you indifferent