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Jean Lurçat is from my family's home city of Angers in France. His tapestry designs have had a profound influence on me in their design and colour. I will never forget the times I visited the medieval Hôpital Saint Jean to see the exhibition there of his series of tapestries Le chant du monde which, in ten huge examples, depict Man's perception of his own existence. So moved was I by these that I set half of them to music for orchestra: Le grand charnier, L'homme en gloire dans la paix, L'eau et le feu, Champagne and Conquête de l'éspace. The image below gives some idea of the contrasts and gradations of colour Lurçat sometimes uses in his work.
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