Painters of the Mediterranean

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

"I struggle and fight with the sun. And what a sun here! You should paint here with gold and precious stones. It's wonderful."
Claude Monet to Auguste Rodin

From the 1880s onwards, many artists discovered the Mediterranean. Azure beaches, the infinite blue sea and sky, the serene...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

"I struggle and fight with the sun. And what a sun here! You should paint here with gold and precious stones. It's wonderful."
Claude Monet to Auguste Rodin

From the 1880s onwards, many artists discovered the Mediterranean. Azure beaches, the infinite blue sea and sky, the serene beauty of the vegetation... So many enchanting landscapes that left them spellbound. Cézanne and Manet chose L'Estaque, Signac put down his brushes in Saint-Tropez, Matisse and Derain in Collioure, Picasso settled in Antibes.
It was then that, from the Impressionists to the Fauves, these artists developed a new conception of light and colour, revolutionised their palette, created new harmonies of pink, yellow, blue, ochre. Through their eyes, the Mediterranean became a new image of happiness and the place of intense artistic experimentation.

This magnificently illustrated work offers an enchanting stroll along the shores of the Mediterranean to discover unique colorists and masterful works that are as luminous as they are colorful and shimmering, through which pictorial modernity is invented.

French
128 pages

Larousse Publishing