"The artist must travel on foot", asserted painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes in 1799.
In his view, this was even the prerequisite for landscape painting. It is this link between landscape and walking, which took concrete form in the 19th century in the practice of painting en plein air, on the motif, that the exhibition seeks to bring to light here.
From walking as a philosophical exercise, conducive to knowledge and thought, to the voluntary wandering of artists in an almost impenetrable wilderness, the exhibition invites you to follow in the footsteps of such painter-walkers as Théodore Rousseau, Gustave Courbet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and many others.
By painting the landscape, these artists, against the world's unacceptable indifference, searched everywhere for traces of their humanity. Looking for traces of oneself and leaving them...
The exhibition has the exceptional support of the Musée d'Orsay.
In his view, this was even the prerequisite for landscape painting. It is this link between landscape and walking, which took concrete form in the 19th century in the practice of painting en plein air, on the motif, that the exhibition seeks to bring to light here.
From walking as a philosophical exercise, conducive to knowledge and thought, to the voluntary wandering of artists in an almost impenetrable wilderness, the exhibition invites you to follow in the footsteps of such painter-walkers as Théodore Rousseau, Gustave Courbet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and many others.
By painting the landscape, these artists, against the world's unacceptable indifference, searched everywhere for traces of their humanity. Looking for traces of oneself and leaving them...
The exhibition has the exceptional support of the Musée d'Orsay.
