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Sunday, December 31, 2023

LES OPIES  PEINTS PAR  VINCENT VAN GOGH


VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)  Les Opies (496m)  France (Provence)  In La nuit étoilée, 1889, huile sur toile, 74x92cm, The MoMA, NewYork
 

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
Les Opies (496m)
France (Provence)

In La nuit étoilée, 1889, huile sur toile, 74 x 92cm, The MoMA, NewYork



A propos de cette composition

La Nuit étoilée est sans doute la peinture la plus célèbre du peintre Vincent van Gogh. Le tableau représente ce que Van Gogh pouvait voir ou plutôt extrapoler de la chambre qu'il occupait dans l'asile de  Saint-Paul-de-Mausole à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence en mai 1889.  Le ciel représenté dans le tableau correspondrait à la configuration céleste visible à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, le 25 mai 1889, à 4:40 précisément.
Le ciel occupe la majorité du tableau ; il est composé de volutes et de tourbillons rappelant des galaxies en spirales. Les étoiles et la Lune sont entourées par des touches de peinture créant ainsi un halo. La Lune est visible en haut à droite, Vénus étant représentée à droite du cyprès. La partie centrale du tableau représente le village de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence vu depuis la chambre de Van Gogh en direction du nord. A ceci près que le clocher de l'église est de style hollandais et ne ressemble pas du tout à  celui de l'église de Saint-Rémy. Une partie du Massif Alpilles apparait au loin à droite du cadre. Les collines intermédiaires ne correspondent pas à la vue réelle depuis l'asile et semblent avoir été rapportées d'un autre point de vue, en direction du sud, avec leur point culminant, les Oppies, surgissant à l'extrémité droite de la composition. Le faux et le vrai se mêlent et et rien n'est à sa place.

 L'artiste
Le 8 mai 1889, Vincent van Gogh quitte Arles où il avait emmenagé l'année précédetne, ayant décidé d'entrer dans l'asile d'aliénés Saint-Paul-de-Mausole que dirige le médecin Théophile Peyron, à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Il y reste un an, au cours duquel il a trois crises importantes : à la mi-juillet, en décembre et la dernière entre février et mars 1890. Malgré ce mauvais état de santé, Van Gogh est très productif et peindra un nombre impressionnant de paysages des Alpilles, juste en face de l'asile, vues à peu près sous tous les angles. Ce n'est que pendant ses crises de démence qu'il ne peint pas. Dans l'asile, une pièce au rez-de-chaussée lui est laissée en guise d'atelier. Il continue à envoyer ses tableaux à Theo. Deux de ses œuvres font partie de la 5e exposition annuelle de la Société des artistes indépendants de Paris. Un des premiers tableaux de cette époque est l’Iris. Les peintures de cette période sont souvent caractérisées par des remous et des spirales. À diverses périodes de sa vie, Van Gogh a également peint ce qu'il voyait de sa fenêtre, notamment à la fin de sa vie avec une grande série de peintures de champs de blé qu'il pouvait admirer de la chambre qu'il occupait à l'asile. Il quitte l'asile le 19 mai 1890, après avoir rencontré le docteur Gachet dont il fera le portrait.
C'est l 'époque où Van Gogh commence à être vaguement connu. En janvier 1890, un article d’Albert Aurier dans le Mercure de France souligne pour la première fois l’importance de ses recherches. Un mois plus tard, la peintre Anna Boch acquiert l’un de ses tableaux, La Vigne rouge pour la somme de 400 francs.

La montagne
Les Opies (496m)  sont le point culminant du massif des Alpilles, dans la partie orientale du massif, sur le territoire de la commune d'Eyguières (Bouches-du-Rhône). Ce sommet doit son nom à la mauvaise transcription du nom provençal Aupiho ou Alpilles (« petites Alpes »).
La tour des Opies est un petit bâtiment construit au point le plus élevé de la chaîne des Opies, une tour carrée, à la manière des actuelles vigies qui se dressent au sommet de plusieurs massifs provençaux pour prévenir les risques d'incendie. On peut encore apercevoir les vestiges d'une ligne téléphonique qui reliait la tour au village d'Aureille.
Trois sentiers de randonnée permettent d'accéder aux Opies : un au départ de l'est depuis un point sur la route D25 proche de Roquemartine ;
- un au départ de la D25a allant à Aureille ;
- un au départ du village d'Aureille au pied du château.
- Les deux derniers sentiers se rejoignent en un même sentier ouest. La première partie du sentier, peu difficile, s'effectue dans un maquis particulièrement luisant par temps ensoleillé. Une partie du sentier ouest traverse des arbres brûlés par des incendies de forêt dont le dernier en septembre 2003. Les sentiers est et ouest se rejoignent à un grand cairn. À partir de là, un petit sentier permet d'effectuer une courte ascension finale.
En raison des réglementations en vigueur concernant la prévention des incendies de forêt, l'accès à ce site est interdit en saison estivale les jours où le mistral souffle fort.


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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
Un blog de Francis Rousseau

Sunday, November 13, 2022

LES OPIES PEINTS PAR VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Les Opies (496 mètres)  France (Bouches du Rhône)   In Les Opies dans les Alpilles vues de Saint-Rémy, 1889, 59 x72 cm, Musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
Les Opies (496 mètres) 
France (Bouches du Rhône)

In Les Opies dans les Alpilles vues de Saint-Rémy, 1889, 59 x72 cm,
Musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

La montagne
Les Opies (496m) sont le point culminant du massif des Alpilles, dans sa partie orientale sur le territoire de la commune d'Eyguières (Bouches-du-Rhône). Ce sommet doit son nom à la mauvaise transcription du nom provençal Aupiho (« petites Alpes ») du massif. La tour des Opies est un petit bâtiment construit au point le plus élevé de la chaîne des Opies, une tour carrée, à la manière des actuelles vigies qui se dressent au sommet de plusieurs massifs provençaux pour prévenir les risques d'incendie. On peut encore
apercevoir les vestiges d'une ligne téléphonique qui reliait la tour au village d'Aureille.
Trois sentiers de randonnée permettent d'accéder aux Opies :un au départ de l'est depuis un point sur la route D25 proche de Roquemartine ;
- un au départ de la D25a allant à Aureille ;
- un au départ du village d'Aureille au pied du château.
Les deux derniers sentiers se rejoignent en un même sentier ouest. La première partie du sentier, peu difficile, s'effectue dans un maquis particulièrement luisant par temps ensoleillé. Une partie du sentier ouest traverse des arbres brûlés par des incendies de forêt dont le dernier en septembre 2003. Les sentiers est et ouest se rejoignent à un grand cairn. À partir de là, un petit sentier permet d'effectuer une courte ascension finale. En raison des réglementations en vigueur concernant la prévention des incendies de forêt, l'accès à ce site est interdit en saison estivale les jours où le mistral souffle fort.


L'artiste
Le 8 mai 1889, Vincent van Gogh quitte Arles où il avait emmenagé l'année précédetne, ayant décidé d'entrer dans l'asile d'aliénés Saint-Paul-de-Mausole que dirige le médecin Théophile Peyron, à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Il y reste un an, au cours duquel il a trois crises importantes : à la mi-juillet, en décembre et la dernière entre février et mars 1890. Malgré ce mauvais état de santé, Van Gogh est très productif et peindra un nombre impressionnant de paysages des Alpilles, juste en face de l'asile,  vues à peu près sous tous les angles. Ce n'est que pendant ses crises de démence qu'il ne peint pas. Dans l'asile, une pièce au rez-de-chaussée lui est laissée en guise d'atelier. Il continue à envoyer ses tableaux à Theo. Deux de ses œuvres font partie de la 5e exposition annuelle de la Société des artistes indépendants de Paris. Un des premiers tableaux de cette époque est l’Iris. Les peintures de cette période sont souvent caractérisées par des remous et des spirales. À diverses périodes de sa vie, Van Gogh a également peint ce qu'il voyait de sa fenêtre, notamment à la fin de sa vie avec une grande série de peintures de champs de blé qu'il pouvait admirer de la chambre qu'il occupait à l'asile de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Il quitte l'asile le 19 mai 1890, après avoir rencontré le docteur Gachet dont il fera le portrait.
C'est l 'époque où Van Gogh commence à être vaguement connu. En janvier 1890, un article d’Albert Aurier dans le Mercure de France souligne pour la première fois l’importance de ses recherches. Un mois plus tard, la peintre Anna Boch acquiert l’un de ses tableaux, La Vigne rouge pour la somme de 400 francs.

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes ....
            Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
            Un blog de Francis Rousseau



Wednesday, April 20, 2022

LE ROCHER DES DEUX TROUS PAINTED BY VINCENT VAN GOGH


VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Le Rocher des Deux Trous (348m - France (Provence)

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
Le Rocher des Deux Trous (348m - 1,141 ft)
France (Provence)


The hill
The Rocher des Deux Trous (348m) in the Alpilles massif is one of the most popular hikes for walkers, satrting from Saint-Remy de Provence. It offers a 360° panorama over the two slopes of the Alpilles and over the entire surrounding region, from Mont Ventoux to the north and as far as the Mediterranean Sea to the south, on a clear day. This picturesque rock eroded and sculpted by the North wind (the Mistral) was painted by Van Gogh during his stay in Saint-Paul de Mausole from May 1889 to May 1890.

The painter
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.
More about Vincent Van Gogh

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2022 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Saturday, October 16, 2021

MONT GAUSSIER (5) AND LES ALPILLES ¨PAINTED BY VINCENT VAN GOGH

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890), Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft), France , In "Les Alpilles vers le plateau de la Caume ", 1889, oil on canvas, 73x83cm,  Guggenheim Museum NYC, collection J. K. Thannhauser.

VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft)
France

In   Les Alpilles vers le plateau de la Caume, 1889, oil on canvas, 73x83cm,  Guggenheim Museum NYC, Justin K. Thannhauser Collection


About the painting
During his internment in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Van Gogh seized the surroundings to nourish his artistic geography. He tirelessly paints and draws new Provencal motifs: cypress trees, olive groves and hills. With the Alpilles chain and the Mont Gaussier rising behind the asylum buildings, the painter has the opportunity to represent this mountain range as well as the farms (Mas in french) nearby. I this one the Mont Gaussier is in the background of the farm, probably situated on theVia Aurelia, the antique roman road going from St Rémy de Provence to Arles...


The mountain
The Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) is a summit of the Alpilles located south of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Today, the place of passage of many hikers who cross it by the GR6, Mount Gaussier was very early used as habitat by protohistoric populations, before having at its summit a medieval castle, nowadays disappeared. Mount Gaussier is made of crystalline limestone, white and hard. One finds in the soil the trace of many fossils. This type of summit is characteristic of the Alpilles range of mountains, especially on the north face.
The first traces of habitation on Mount Gaussier are ancient. In 1996, three sites dating from Protohistory were discovered at the summit and on the slopes. This is what emerges from the study of stones, tiles, ceramics and shards of amphora found on the premises. Moreover, the foundation of a wall was identified at the top during the same prospecting.
Most of the human activity of antiquity at Mount Gaussier nevertheless concentrated at the foot of it, since it was there that was built the Salyan city of Glanum (today Saint-Remy de Provence). Research carried out in 1996 and 1997 revealed that the well-preserved remains of a protohistoric rampart with towers have been cleared in several places, particularly on the ridges which dominate to the north-east and south-west the Saint-Clerg and at the foot of Mount Gaussier. The system of rampart which encircled the city in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. J.-C. leaned on the cliffs of the mount Gaussier which border it on a hundred meters. It is also believed that Mount Gaussier, by its situation, could be used as an acropolis because of its plateau surrounded by cliffs and that its access from Glanum was made possible by a narrow corridor.
If, according to the archaeologist Henri Rolland, some families occupied the Alpilles range, on the slopes of Mount Gaussier, between the first Iron Age and the end of Antiquity, but also in the High Middle Ages, only the foot and the summit of the mountain were occupied in the following centuries, especially in the 5th and 6th centuries. It was here that a part of the inhabitants of Glanum took up residence after the ruin of the ancient city in the alluvial deposits of the mountain.
Mount Gaussier, like Glanum, then in ruins, and Saint-Remy-de-Provence, became property of the church of Avignon at the end of the 9th century in a county of Provence powered by Count Thibert.
It is possible to reach the Mount Gaussier from the ruins of Glanum or from La Caume by the GR6 climbing previously metal ladders.

The painter
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.

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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

MONT GAUSSIER (4) AND THE ALPILLES BY VINCENT VAN GOGH

 
 
 
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) France  In Mas au milieu des oliviers dans les Alpilles, St Rémy de Provence, oil on canvas, 1889,  Private collection

 
 
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)
Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft)
France

In Mas au milieu des oliviers dans les Alpilles, St Rémy de Provence, oil on canvas, 1889, 
Private collection


About the painting
During his internment in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Van Gogh seized the surroundings to nourish his artistic geography. He tirelessly paints and draws new Provencal motifs: cypress trees, olive groves and hills. With the Alpilles chain and the Mont Gaussier rising behind the asylum buildings, the painter has the opportunity to represent this mountain range as well as the farms (Mas in french) nearby.  I this one the Mont Gaussier is in the background of the farm, probably situated on theVia Aurelia, the antique roman road going from St Rémy de Provence to Arles...  

The mountain
The Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) is a summit of the Alpilles located south of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Today, the place of passage of many hikers who cross it by the GR6, Mount Gaussier was very early used as habitat by protohistoric populations, before having at its summit a medieval castle, nowadays disappeared. Mount Gaussier is made of crystalline limestone, white and hard. One finds in the soil the trace of many fossils. This type of summit is characteristic of the Alpilles range of mountains, especially on the north face.
The first traces of habitation on Mount Gaussier are ancient. In 1996, three sites dating from Protohistory were discovered at the summit and on the slopes. This is what emerges from the study of stones, tiles, ceramics and shards of amphora found on the premises. Moreover, the foundation of a wall was identified at the top during the same prospecting.
Most of the human activity of antiquity at Mount Gaussier nevertheless concentrated at the foot of it, since it was there that was built the Salyan city of Glanum (today Saint-Remy de Provence). Research carried out in 1996 and 1997 revealed that the well-preserved remains of a protohistoric rampart with towers have been cleared in several places, particularly on the ridges which dominate to the north-east and south-west the Saint-Clerg and at the foot of Mount Gaussier. The system of rampart which encircled the city in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. J.-C. leaned on the cliffs of the mount Gaussier which border it on a hundred meters. It is also believed that Mount Gaussier, by its situation, could be used as an acropolis because of its plateau surrounded by cliffs and that its access from Glanum was made possible by a narrow corridor.
If, according to the archaeologist Henri Rolland, some families occupied the Alpilles range, on the slopes of Mount Gaussier, between the first Iron Age and the end of Antiquity, but also in the High Middle Ages, only the foot and the summit of the mountain were occupied in the following centuries, especially in the 5th and 6th centuries. It was here that a part of the inhabitants of Glanum took up residence after the ruin of the ancient city in the alluvial deposits of the mountain.
Mount Gaussier, like Glanum, then in ruins, and Saint-Remy-de-Provence, became property of the church of Avignon at the end of the 9th century in a county of Provence powered by Count Thibert.
It is possible to reach the Mount Gaussier from the ruins of Glanum or from La Caume by the GR6 climbing previously metal ladders.

The painter
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.
More about Vincent Van Gogh

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2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Saturday, September 5, 2020

MONT GAUSSIER (3) PAINTED BY VINCENT VAN GOGH



VINCENT VAN GOGH  (1853-1890) 
  Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft)  
France

In  Entrée de la carrière près de Saint-Rémy (et Mont Gaussier), 1889,  
Oil on canvas 52.0 x 64.0 cm. Private collection 
 
About the painting
During his internment in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Van Gogh seized the surroundings to nourish his artistic geography. He tirelessly paints and draws new Provencal motifs: cypress trees, olive groves and hills. With the Alpilles chain and the Mont Gaussier rising behind the asylum buildings, the painter has the opportunity to represent this mountain range as well as the quarry which is nearby. Of the latter, he gave two performances: one painted in mid-July - shortly after he suffered a new seizure - the other (the one above) in October in which  Mount Gaussier, the highest moutain of Les Alpilles appears on right. 

The mountain
The Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) is a summit of the Alpilles located south of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Today, the place of passage of many hikers who cross it by the GR6, Mount Gaussier was very early used as habitat by protohistoric populations, before having at its summit a medieval castle, nowadays disappeared. Mount Gaussier is made of crystalline limestone, white and hard. One finds in the soil the trace of many fossils. This type of summit is characteristic of the Alpilles range of mountains, especially on the north face.
The first traces of habitation on Mount Gaussier are ancient. In 1996, three sites dating from Protohistory were discovered at the summit and on the slopes. This is what emerges from the study of stones, tiles, ceramics and shards of amphora found on the premises. Moreover, the foundation of a wall was identified at the top during the same prospecting.
Most of the human activity of antiquity at Mount Gaussier nevertheless concentrated at the foot of it, since it was there that was built the Salyan city of Glanum (today Saint-Remy de Provence). Research carried out in 1996 and 1997 revealed that the well-preserved remains of a protohistoric rampart with towers have been cleared in several places, particularly on the ridges which dominate to the north-east and south-west the Saint-Clerg and at the foot of Mount Gaussier. The system of rampart which encircled the city in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. J.-C. leaned on the cliffs of the mount Gaussier which border it on a hundred meters. It is also believed that Mount Gaussier, by its situation, could be used as an acropolis because of its plateau surrounded by cliffs and that its access from Glanum was made possible by a narrow corridor.
If, according to the archaeologist Henri Rolland, some families occupied the Alpilles range, on the slopes of Mount Gaussier, between the first Iron Age and the end of Antiquity, but also in the High Middle Ages, only the foot and the summit of the mountain were occupied in the following centuries, especially in the 5th and 6th centuries. It was here that a part of the inhabitants of Glanum took up residence after the ruin of the ancient city in the alluvial deposits of the mountain.
Mount Gaussier, like Glanum, then in ruins, and Saint-Remy-de-Provence, became property of the church of Avignon at the end of the 9th century in a county of Provence powered by Count Thibert.
It is possible to reach the Mount Gaussier from the ruins of Glanum or from La Caume by the GR6 climbing previously metal ladders.

The painter
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.
More about Vincent Van Gogh

_______________________________

2020 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Friday, January 3, 2020

MONT GAUSSIER (2) PAINTED BY VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

VINCENT VAN GOGH  (1853-1890) 
  Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft)  
France
  In Paysage à Saint-Rémy (Champs Clos avec Paysan), huile sur toile 1889
Indianapolis Museum of Art.

The mountain
The Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) is a summit of the Alpilles located south of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Today, the place of passage of many hikers who cross it by the GR6, Mount Gaussier was very early used as habitat by protohistoric populations, before having at its summit a medieval castle, nowadays disappeared. Mount Gaussier is made of crystalline limestone, white and hard. One finds in the soil the trace of many fossils. This type of summit is characteristic of the Alpilles range of mountains, especially on the north face.
The first traces of habitation on Mount Gaussier are ancient. In 1996, three sites dating from Protohistory and Late Antiquity were discovered at the summit and on the slopes. This is what emerges from the study of stones, tiles, ceramics and shards of amphora found on the premises. Moreover, the foundation of a wall was identified at the top during the same prospecting.
Most of the human activity of antiquity at Mount Gaussier nevertheless concentrated at the foot of it, since it was there that was built the Salyan city of Glanum (today Saint-Remy de Provence). Research carried out in 1996 and 1997 revealed that the well-preserved remains of a protohistoric rampart with towers have been cleared in several places, particularly on the ridges which dominate to the north-east and south-west the Saint- Clerg and at the foot of Mount Gaussier. The system of rampart which encircled the city in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. J.-C. leaned on the cliffs of the mount Gaussier which border it on a hundred meters. It is also believed that Mount Gaussier, by its situation, could be used as an acropolis because of its plateau surrounded by cliffs and that its access from Glanum was made possible by a narrow corridor.
If, according to the archaeologist Henri Rolland, some families occupied the Alpilles range, on the slopes of Mount Gaussier, between the first Iron Age and the end of Antiquity, but also in the High Middle Ages, only the foot and the summit of the mountain were occupied in the following centuries, especially in the 5th and 6th centuries. It was here that a part of the inhabitants of Glanum took up residence after the ruin of the ancient city in the alluvial deposits of the mountain.
Mount Gaussier, like Glanum, then in ruins, and Saint-Remy-de-Provence, became property of the church of Avignon at the end of the 9th century in a county of Provence powered by Count Thibert.
It is possible to reach the Mount Gaussier from the ruins of Glanum or from La Caume by the GR6 climbing previously metal ladders.

The painter
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.
More about Vincent Van Gogh 

_______________________________

2020 - Wandering Vertexes... 


by Francis Rousseau



Wednesday, November 16, 2016

MONT GAUSSIER PAINTED BY VINCENT VAN GOGH


VINCENT VAN GOGH  (1853-1890) 
Le Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft)  
France

In Le mas St Paul à Saint-Rémy de Provence, 1889, Kroller-Muller Museum, Netherlands

The mountain 
The Mont Gaussier (306 m -1,004 ft) is a summit of the Alpilles located south of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Today, the place of passage of many hikers who cross it by the GR6, Mount Gaussier was very early used as habitat by protohistoric populations, before having at its summit a medieval castle, nowadays disappeared. Mount Gaussier is made of crystalline limestone, white and hard. One finds in the soil the trace of many fossils. This type of summit is characteristic of the Alpilles range of mountains, especially on the north face.
The first traces of habitation on Mount Gaussier are ancient. In 1996,  three sites dating from Protohistory and Late Antiquity were discovered at the summit and on the slopes. This is what emerges from the study of stones, tiles, ceramics and shards of amphora found on the premises. Moreover, the foundation of a wall was identified at the top during the same prospecting.
Most of the human activity of antiquity at Mount Gaussier nevertheless concentrated at the foot of it, since it was there that was built the Salyan city of Glanum (today Saint-Remy de Provence). Research carried out in 1996 and 1997 revealed that the well-preserved remains of a protohistoric rampart with towers have been cleared in several places, particularly on the ridges which dominate to the north-east and south-west the Saint- Clerg and at the foot of Mount Gaussier. The system of rampart which encircled the city in the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. J.-C. leaned on the cliffs of the mount Gaussier which border it on a hundred meters. It is also believed that Mount Gaussier, by its situation, could be used as an acropolis because of its plateau surrounded by cliffs and that its access from Glanum was made possible by a narrow corridor.
If, according to the archaeologist Henri Rolland, some families occupied the Alpilles range, on the slopes of Mount Gaussier, between the first Iron Age and the end of Antiquity, but also in the High Middle Ages, only the foot and the summit of the mountain were occupied in the following centuries, especially in the 5th and 6th centuries. It was here that a part of the inhabitants of Glanum took up residence after the ruin of the ancient city in the alluvial deposits of the mountain.
Mount Gaussier, like Glanum, then in ruins, and Saint-Remy-de-Provence, became property of the church of Avignon at the end of the 9th century in a county of Provence powered by Count Thibert.
It is possible to reach the Mount Gaussier from the ruins of Glanum or from La Caume by the GR6 climbing previously metal ladders.

 The  painter 
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He died by suicide at 37, following years of mental illness and poverty.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion, and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted in ill health and solitude. He took up painting in 1881 having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence by letter.
Van Gogh's early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886 he moved to Paris where me met members of the avant-garde, including Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility. As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. His paintings grew brighter in colour as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the south of France in 1888. He lived there in the Yellow House and, with Gauguin, developed a concept of colour that symbolised inner emotion. During this period he broadened his subject matter to include olive trees, cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and, though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, not eating properly and drinking heavily. His friendship with Gauguin came to an end after he threatened the Frenchman with a razor, and in a rage, cut off part of his own left ear. His stay in a psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy led to one of the more productive periods of his life. He discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris under the care of the homeopathic doctor and artist, Paul Gachet. On 27 July 1890, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He died from his injuries two days later.
He sold only one painting during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide. Van Gogh exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.
Van Gogh and Saint Remy de Provence
Van Gogh entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole  asylum  in Saint-Rémy de Provence on 8 May 1889, accompanied by his carer, Frédéric Salles, a Protestant clergyman. Saint-Paul was a former monastery in Saint-Rémy, less than 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Arles, and was run by a former naval doctor, Théophile Peyron. Van Gogh had two cells with barred windows, one of which was to be used as a studio. During his stay, the clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings. He made several studies of the hospital's interiors, such as Vestibule of the Asylum and Saint-Rémy (September 1889). Some of his works from this time are characterised by swirls, such as The Starry Night. He was allowed short supervised walks, which led to paintings of cypresses and olive trees, including Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background 1889, Cypresses 1889, Cornfield with Cypresses (1889),  Mont Gaussier  and Mas St Paul (1889), Country road in Provence by Night (1890). In September 1889 he produced two further versions of Bedroom in Arles.
Limited access to life outside the clinic resulted in a shortage of subject matter. Van Gogh was left to work on interpretations of other artist's paintings, such as Millet's The Sower and Noon – Rest from Work (after Millet), as well as variations on his own earlier work. Van Gogh was an admirer of the Realism of Jules Breton, Gustave Courbet and Millet, and he compared his copies to a musician's interpreting Beethoven.
Albert Aurier praised his work in the Mercure de France in January 1890, and described him as "a genius". In February Van Gogh painted five versions of L'Arlésienne (Madame Ginoux), based on a charcoal sketch Gauguin had produced when she sat for both artists in November 1888. Also in February, Van Gogh was invited by Les XX, a society of avant-garde painters in Brussels, to participate in their annual exhibition. At the opening dinner a Les XX member, Henry de Groux, insulted Van Gogh's work. Toulouse-Lautrec demanded satisfaction, and Signac declared he would continue to fight for Van Gogh's honour if Lautrec surrendered. De Groux apologised for the slight and left the group. Later, while Van Gogh's exhibit was on display with the Artistes Indйpendants in Paris, Claude Monet said that his work was the best in the show.  After the birth of his nephew, Van Gogh wrote "I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky."