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Bull's head, detail from La Poesie by Jean LurcatJean Lurçat

"Jean Lurçat is a necromancer of the bestiary. He is a strategist of strange symbols that look back before the origin of our memories."
          —William Fifield, In Search of Genius, page 256
Lurçat often used animal and nature imagery in his tapestries. Like the allegorical animals in the medieval tapestries he admired, the roosters, bulls, butterflies, and birds of his tapestries had a symbolical meaning.

Detail from L'Eau et le Feu by Jean LurcatSaying that he was "rooted in tradition," Lurçat explained that he belonged to "the tradition of the Middle Ages, of the day of magic, of griffons and unicorns! And the fields and the firmament!"       (In Search of Genius, page 262)

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