Vige Langevin Explained

Vige Langevin
Birth Name:Edwige Grandjouan
Birth Date:2 October 1898
Birth Place:Nantes, France
Death Date:22 September 1992 (age 93)
Death Place:Paris, France
Occupation:Artist, writer, arts educator
Relatives:Paul Langevin (father-in-law)
Hélène Solomon-Langevin (sister-in-law)
Family:Langevin family

Vige Langevin (2 October 1898 – 22 September 1992), born Edwige Grandjouan, was a French artist, writer and arts educator.

Early life and education

Langevin was born in Nantes, the daughter of artist and writer and teacher Bettina Simon.[1] One of her brother was scholar . She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.[2]

Career

Langevin taught and wrote about art and art education.[3] In 1951 she wrote a series of reports about arts education in France for UNESCO.[4] In 1960, she was an adjudicator for folk dance competitions at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.[5]

Langevin was known for her explorations of "collective paintings", murals painted by a group, often as a classroom or community activity.[6] An American textbook explained the process Langevin taught: "The members of the class produce small paintings. One painting is selected and divided into squares which are numbered. Each child in the class is assigned one square which he copies on a large scale on another piece of paper. Eventually the large squares are assembled to form a very large picture."[7] Le roi et la reine and Le cheval de Troie, paintings created this way, in a classroom under Langevin and Jean Lombard's supervision, are in the collection of the Centre Pompidou.[8] [9]

Publications

Personal life

Grandjouan married scientist Jean Langevin, son of physicist Paul Langevin. They had three children. During World War II, Langevin and her husband were members of the French Resistance.[18] She died in 1992, at the age of 93, in Paris.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Heath . Nick . Grandjouan- creator of the first illustrated political poster . 2024-03-20 . libcom.org . en.
  2. Web site: Vige-Langevin (1898-1992) . 2024-03-20 . data.bnf.fr . fr.
  3. Patton . Ryan M. . April 2014 . Games That Art Educators Play: Games in the Historical and Cultural Context of Art Education . Studies in Art Education . en . 55 . 3 . 241–252 . 10.1080/00393541.2014.11518933 . 0039-3541.
  4. Gaitskell, C. D., and Edwin Ziegfeld. "Art Education as Aid to World Understanding Stressed at UNESCO Seminar in Great Britain" UNESCO News 5(4)(October 1951): 15-16.
  5. News: 1960-06-09 . Adjudicators for Llangollen . 2024-03-20 . Liverpool Daily Post . 7 . Newspapers.com.
  6. Book: Pavey, Don . Art-Based Games . 2024-02-09 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-351-04284-0 . 5–6 . en . Internet Archive.
  7. Book: Gaitskell, Charles D. . Children and their art: Methods for the elementary school . 1958 . Harcourt Brace & World . Internet Archive . 283.
  8. Web site: Le roi et la reine . 2024-03-20 . Centre Pompidou . fr-FR.
  9. Web site: Le cheval de Troie . 2024-03-20 . Centre Pompidou . en-EN.
  10. Langevin, V., "Observations on art education for children" UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
  11. Langevin, V. & Lombard, J., "Collective Paintins and Drawings by Children" UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
  12. Langevin, V., "Art education in France: principles and organization" UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
  13. Langevin, V., "Éducation artistique des adultes en France" UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
  14. Langevin, Vige. "Collective Paintings" in Edwin Ziegfeld, ed., Education and Art: A Symposium (UNESCO 1953): 61-62; via Internet Archive.
  15. Langevin . Vige . January 1953 . L'Enseignement, en France, de la Musique et de la Danse Populaires Françaises . Journal of the International Folk Music Council . en . 5 . 1 . 47–48 . 10.2307/836149 . 836149 . 0950-7922.
  16. Langevin . Vige . Lombard . Jean . June 1959 . Collective painting in a Paris school . School Arts . 58 . 10 . 15–18 . Internet Archive.
  17. Langevin . Vige . 1959 . Patrice Coirault (1875-1959) . Arts et Traditions Populaires . 7 . 3–7 . 41002721 . 0571-2211.
  18. Book: Humbert, Agnes . Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France . 2009-09-01 . Bloomsbury Publishing USA . 978-1-59691-636-4 . 22–25 . en.

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