Jeanne Socquet Explained

Jeanne Socquet
Birth Date:1928 11, df=y
Birth Place:Paris, France
Nationality:French
Occupation:Visual artist
Education:Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Beaux-Arts de Paris

Jeanne Socquet (24 November 1928 – 17 October 2024) was a French painter and mosaicist.[1] She was a neo-expressionist[2] who created a wide variety of mosaics.[3]

Biography

Born in Paris on 24 November 1928, Socquet was the oldest of four children. In 1945, she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress.[4] At the age of 21, she left home and began her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and subsequently at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.[3] In 1956, she married the architect Louis Seignon, who she met at the Beaux-Arts and had a son with him. However, she was forced to raise their son alone when Seignon was killed in a traffic collision in the 1960s.[4] She then directed her art focus on marginalized people, such as those in psychiatric hospitals or those who did not conform to societal beauty standards. Her exhibition titles embraced these themes, with names such as Jeanne Socquet, peindre la solitude[5] and La folie peinte par Jeanne Socquet.[6]

In 1972, she joined a group of women activists, La Spirale, founded by .[7] The following year, she co-wrote a book titled La création étouffée with Suzanne Horer.[8] The work acted as a feminist manifesto and a tribute to femininity in the realm of artwork.[9] Throughout her career, her works were praised by the likes of Jacques Leenhardt,[10] Marguerite Duras,[11] and Armand Lanoux.[12]

Socquet died on 17 October 2024, at the age of 95.[13]

Illustrated works

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Socquet, Jeanne. Union List of Artist Names.
  2. Web site: Jeanne Socquet. Espace Christian Peugeot. French. dead. https://archive.today/20150623042235/http://www.espacechristianepeugeot.org/site/index.php/artiste-du-mois/2012/17-artiste-du-mois/artiste/44-jeanne-socquet-aout-2012. 23 June 2015.
  3. Web site: SOCQUET, Jeanne. Benezit. French. dead. https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Foxfordindex.oup.com%2Fview%2F10.1093%2Fbenz%2F9780199773787.article.B00171503%3Frskey%3Ddqd5A9%26result%3D1#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url. 28 October 2016.
  4. Book: Bard, Christian. 2017. Dictionnaire des féministes - France, XVIIIe-Modèle:XXie siècle. French. Paris. Presses universitaires de France.
  5. Web site: Jeanne Socquet. Art Aujourd'hui. French. dead. https://archive.today/20150623070835/http://www.artaujourdhui.info/a06235-jeanne-socquet.html. 23 June 2015.
  6. Web site: Productions d'expositions : Exposition Jeanne Socquet - Les folles. JUKO Access. French.
  7. Web site: suite ARTENSION N°9. 13 October 2008. Le blog de Fanfg. French. dead. https://archive.today/20150624121532/http://fanfg.canalblog.com/archives/2008/10/13/10932167.html. 24 June 2015.
  8. Book: Bonnet, Marie-Jo. 2006. Les femmes artistes dans les avant-gardes. French. Odile Jacob. 87–95.
  9. Web site: La création étouffée – petite suite… sur une femme artiste sculpteur, Simone Mary. lepapillondeslivrescerclerenevigo. French.
  10. Book: Leenhardt, Jacques. Connaître la peinture de Jeanne Socquet. French. Jacques Dopagne.
  11. Web site: Socquet, Jeanne. Le Delarge. French.
  12. Book: Lanoux, Armand. 1968. Jeanne Socquet, [catalogue]. French. Galerie Jean-Claude Bellier.
  13. Web site: Micheline SEIGNON dite Jeanne SOCQUET. Le Figaro. French.
  14. Web site: New York, balafres. Le Figaro. French. dead. https://archive.today/20150624121548/http://evene.lefigaro.fr/livres/livre/maud-tabachnik-new-york-balafres-16040.php. 24 June 2015.

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