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...most prominent and popular of U.S. weavers, Helena Hernmarck, has set herself totally against this modern orthodoxy. Hernmarck weaves an unabashed photorealism, often actually working from photographs. This may sound like kitsch. But when observed and contemplated day in, day out, Hernmarck's transformations of photo images into large wool, linen and cotton thread weavings are often stunning and always pleasurable artistic experiences. They are, in fact, a sort of return to the pictorial tapestry tradition of the Renaissance...
...Hernmarck's work often conveys high emotional drama. In Sailing, which she created in 1976 for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, it is the drama of grand romantic painting. A ship's sails billow to their utmost; the sailors on deck strain as fiercely as the wind itself. By contrast, her giant (20 ft. by 11 ft.) tapestries Poppies and Bluebonnets (1979) for an office building in Dallas have the lazy, midsummer-day haze of a Monet...
...including the out-of-focus background and prismatic light blurs, but the effect is different from photos and even more so from painted murals. The weaving process, with its interlaced wefts and warps, gives the fabric a subtle play of light and shade and adds the fascination of texture. Hernmarck's tapestries thus add warmth, a reminder of nature, to the sometimes chill corporate setting, enhancing the architecture rather than merely decorating...
...addition, representational themes enable Hernmarck to create tapestries with a specific meaning for their place and purpose. She works out the theme, as well as the size and general character of her work, in consultation with the companies and architects she works for. She prefers to have her tapestries considered at the very inception of a building as an integral part of its design. A good example is the piece that earned her national renown in 1973, the Carp tapestry, which she wove for the Deere & Co. headquarters in Moline, Ill., designed by Eero Saarinen. The theme was suggested...
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