This image from La Poésie, part of Le Chant du Monde, the largest contemporary tapestry cycle in the world, will give you a sense of the color and scale of Lurçat's tapestries. Each of the panels in the tapestry is more than 14 feet high and up to 43 feet long.

Detail from La Poésie, 1961

Panel from Le Chant du Monde, a series of ten monumental tapestries Lurçat created between 1957 and 1965 inspired by the 14th-century tapestry of the Apocalypse at Angers

In Le Chant du Monde, Lurçat shows his version of apocalypse: nuclear war. The first four panels illustrate the atom bomb and its destruction. In the fifth, he depicts man in harmony with nature, L'Homme en Gloire dans la Paix (Man in the Glory of Peace), his hoped-for alternative.

Five more panels, including La Poésie, dominated by Sagittarius, Lurçat's symbol for the poet, "the one who hits right on," present man's creative capacity, as well as Lurçat's counterpoint to the science that created the atom bomb—the science that permitted space exploration.

From his interview with William Fifield:
Le Chant du Monde was about "the joy of life." But for the tapestry to be complete, said Lurçat, it had to include desolation. "Life is not all joy. It is good and evil, black and white, fire and water, male and female, material and antimaterial.... The dialectic principle—good and evil opposed."
                                                         (In Search of Genius, page 270)