Rose Aubert French nationality Born in La Seyne-sur-Mer in 1901

Rose Aubert went to elementary school for a very short time. At the age of twenty, she marries a farmer Charles Aubert. Around 1932, her husband who suffers from acute rheumatism is forced to slow down his work in the fields. Rose has to take charge of the farm. Worn out by the hardship of her job, she becomes ill and has to stay home. This could have been the trigger that led her to start painting and drawing. As one can imagine, it is a strange activity for someone from a rural background in the 50s.

She depicts imaginary and abstract landscapes, haunted by anthropomorphic shapes that look like mouths, orifices, circular forms resembling blood vessels. Her work interweaves mankind into nature, as if by a process of vampirisation. A sort of rape, of abduction, of loss and distress which recalls in some ways the embroideries of Jeanne Tripier. Rose Aubert often uses ballpoint pen, mostly women caught in some kind of net. Her drawings are delicate and aerial but also give one the feeling of being trapped as her figures blend right into her intricate lines.

SEE ALSO: Publications de la Compagnie de l’Art Brut, fascicule 5, Paris, 1965.

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