Tuesday 9 October 2012

market salad and a cathedral in the quarry

St Remy de Provence for lunch in the square. Under the shade of a spreading Plane tree, market salad.

Van Gogh and Gaugin at the Cathedrale des Images at Les Baux. From the dark, slightly moist air, the soft stirrings of music are heard. Then suddenly the limestone walls of the ancient underground quarry are illuminated, bathed first in the light of images of metamorphoses...volcanoes, rain, sea, plants sprouting and growing; images which would have inspired these two artists and which are so often represented in the ir works. Then their works, projected onto the quarry walls, accompanied by great feats of musical wonder. Colour, sound, transforming, hypnotising.



2 comments:

  1. hate to be the art history pedant. the images may be van gogh, but the others are gaugin, not cezanne. am so inspired to go, visit, live and breathe the history.

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    1. Quite right. And you SHOULD be the art history pedant. Thank you. I''m ashamed I slipped up there. I'm blaming jet lag.

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