The films are being screened for educational purposes
The Palette Collection brings together a series of films by Alain Jaubert exploring a selection of major works from various periods in the history of painting. Thanks to the latest techniques in video animation, the secrets of the paintings are revealed and discovering art becomes an enjoyable adventure
What we call modern art really begins with Paul Cézanne.fifa coins The radical inventions of this painter from Aix-en-Provence were taken up by Van Gogh and Gauguin who, each in his own manner, further developed new ways of painting and laid the groundwork for Picasso, Matisse and Bonnard.
Van Gogh - "The High Yellow Note"
In 1888, Van Gogh painted his bedroom. This image, which has been reproduced so many times that it is famous, meant much to the painter. The painting is intentionally simple, and yet the overall effect is quite strange: objects seem to retreat and space is distorted. Some critics have used the painting to support their theory that Van Gogh was mad. Yet, what if the painter were sane, and it is space that is mad?
Gauguin - "Wild Harmonies"
To attain his "tone poetry", Gauguin travelled a lot in Brittany, Panama and Martinique, "lands of primitive freedom". Always searching for people who were not yet "spoiled by progress" and who were imbued with an "archaic spirituality", he gave the world his best paintings while in Polynesia. The workArearea ("Joyousness") was painted during his first stay in Tahiti.
Cézanne - "The Violence of the Motif"
Born in Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne returned there after a few trips elsewhere. He turned Mount Sainte-Victoire, a landscape much appreciated by local painters, into his own motif. He depicted the mountain more than sixty times in different styles and in every season. In this film, Alain Jaubert explores Cézanne's strange stubborn desire to represent the same landscape over and over.
