Vige Langevin

Langevin was born in Nantes, the daughter of artist and writer {{Interlanguage link|Jules Grandjouan|lt=Jules Grandjouan|fr|Jules Grandjouan}} and teacher Bettina Simon.{{Cite web |last=Heath |first=Nick |title=Grandjouan- creator of the first illustrated political poster |url=https://libcom.org/article/grandjouan-creator-first-illustrated-political-poster |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=libcom.org |language=en}} One of her brother was scholar {{Interlanguage|Jacques-Olivier Grandjouan|lt=Jacques-Olivier Grandjouan|fr|Jacques-Olivier Grandjouan}}. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs.{{Cite web |title=Vige-Langevin (1898-1992) |url=https://data.bnf.fr/12040133/vige-langevin/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=fr}}

Langevin taught and wrote about art and art education.{{Cite journal |last=Patton |first=Ryan M. |date=April 2014 |title=Games That Art Educators Play: Games in the Historical and Cultural Context of Art Education |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00393541.2014.11518933 |journal=Studies in Art Education |language=en |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=241–252 |doi=10.1080/00393541.2014.11518933 |issn=0039-3541|url-access=subscription }} In 1951 she wrote a series of reports about arts education in France for UNESCO.Gaitskell, C. D., and Edwin Ziegfeld. [https://books.google.com/books?id=U5A4exVxgVoC&dq=Vige+Langevin&pg=PA15 "Art Education as Aid to World Understanding Stressed at UNESCO Seminar in Great Britain"] UNESCO News 5(4)(October 1951): 15-16. In 1960, she was an adjudicator for folk dance competitions at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod.{{Cite news |date=1960-06-09 |title=Adjudicators for Llangollen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-daily-post-adjudicators-for-ll/143756134/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=Liverpool Daily Post |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Langevin was known for her explorations of "collective paintings", murals painted by a group, often as a classroom or community activity.{{Cite book |last=Pavey |first=Don |url=https://archive.org/details/artbasedgames0000pave/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22Vige+Langevin%22 |title=Art-Based Games |date=2024-02-09 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-04284-0 |pages=5–6 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}} 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."{{Cite book |last=Gaitskell |first=Charles D. |url=http://archive.org/details/childrentheirart0000unse |title=Children and their art: Methods for the elementary school |date=1958 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & World |others=Internet Archive |pages=283}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Le roi et la reine |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/ressources/oeuvre/czAz4BR |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web |title=Le cheval de Troie |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cez5ajp |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=en-EN}}

• "Le Style de la Danse Populaire en France" (1950)
• "Observations on art education for children" (1951)Langevin, V., [https://policycommons.net/artifacts/10890000/observations-on-art-education-for-children/11768251/ "Observations on art education for children"] UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
• "Collective Paintings and Drawings by Children" (1951, with Jean Lombard)Langevin, V. & Lombard, J., [https://policycommons.net/artifacts/10890840/collective-paintings-and-drawings-by-children/11768984/ "Collective Paintins and Drawings by Children"] UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
• "Art education in France: principles and organization" (1951)Langevin, V., [https://policycommons.net/artifacts/10890437/art-education-in-france/11767558/ "Art education in France: principles and organization"] UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
• "Éducation artistique des adultes en France" (1951)Langevin, V., [https://policycommons.net/artifacts/10891392/education-artistique-des-adultes-en-france/11769555/ "Éducation artistique des adultes en France"] UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
• "Collective paintings" (1953)Langevin, Vige. [https://archive.org/details/educationartsymp0000edwi/page/n13/mode/2up?q=%22Vige+Langevin%22 "Collective Paintings"] in Edwin Ziegfeld, ed., Education and Art: A Symposium (UNESCO 1953): 61-62; via Internet Archive.
• "L'Enseignement, en France, de la Musique et de la Danse Populaires Françaises" (1953){{Cite journal |last=Langevin |first=Vige |date=January 1953 |title=L'Enseignement, en France, de la Musique et de la Danse Populaires Françaises |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-folk-music-council/article/abs/lenseignement-en-france-de-la-musique-et-de-la-danse-populaires-francaises/52DB455C2C0CFFB6307F7405457D5E5D |journal=Journal of the International Folk Music Council |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=47–48 |doi=10.2307/836149 |jstor=836149 |issn=0950-7922|url-access=subscription }}
• "Collective painting in a Paris school" (1959, with Jean Lombard){{Cite journal |last1=Langevin |first1=Vige |last2=Lombard |first2=Jean |date=June 1959 |title=Collective painting in a Paris school |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_school-arts_1959-06_58_10/page/14/mode/2up?q=Vige+Langevin |journal=School Arts |volume=58 |issue=10 |pages=15–18 |via=Internet Archive}}
• "Patrice Coirault (1875-1959)" (1959){{Cite journal |last=Langevin |first=Vige |date=1959 |title=Patrice Coirault (1875-1959) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41002721 |journal=Arts et Traditions Populaires |volume=7 |pages=3–7 |jstor=41002721 |issn=0571-2211}}
• Jules Grandjouan (1969)

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.{{Cite book |last=Humbert |first=Agnes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFGgAwAAQBAJ&dq=Vige+Langevin&pg=PA22 |title=Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France |date=2009-09-01 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-59691-636-4 |pages=22–25 |language=en}} She died in 1992, at the age of 93, in Paris.

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• [https://bibnum.explore.psl.eu/s/psl/ark:/18469/mzwh#?xywh=-674%2C-1%2C3381%2C2711 "Caricature d'Irène Joliot par Vige Langevin, vers 1950"], a sketch by Vige Langevin, in the Musée Curie

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