The Montagne Sainte Victoire (1, 011m - 2, 216 ft)
France (Provence Alpes Côte d'azur)
In La Sainte-Victoire (2), Fusain, 29, 7 x 42 cm, 2008
About this drawing
Jean Baptiste Née made several charcoal drawings of the Sainte Victoire of which a first one has already been published in this blog.
The artist
Jean-Baptiste Née,
born in 1986. is a french painter, scenographer and visual artist,
graduated from Arts-Décoratifs of Paris in 2012. Jean-Baptiste Née works
in the mountains and high mountains, always in situ, in direct
confrontation with the movements of the earth and water and wind. He
gives a growing place for the action of the elements on the work in
progress (rain, snow, frost, etc.). He established his "large workshop"
in the Swiss Alps or in the Vercors massif - especially in winter -, as
well as during long hikes in the Italian Alps. In the winter of 2018,
he worked in the massifs of Wudangshan and Lushan, in China, and became
interested in the Taoist notion of "Sky". Since 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née
exhibits regularly in galleries in France and Switzerland. His workshop
is in Montreuil, France. Exhibited in Galerie Camera
Obscura in Paris. A book was recently published about his work "Le monde nu" Éditions Hartpon.
Contact @jeanbaptiste.nee.
Jean Basptiste Née website
The mountain
Mont
Sainte-Victoire (1,011 m-3,316ft) also called Mont Venturi is a
limestone massif in the South of France, in the region
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Located east of Aix-en-Provence, it has
experienced international fame, due to the more than 80 works Paul Cézanne did on it. It hosts many hikers, climbers and nature lovers, and is a major element of Aix landscape.
The range of the Sainte-Victoire is 18 kilometers long and 5 kilometers
from large, following a strict east-west orientation. It is located on
the Bouches-du-Rhône and Var, and in the towns of Puyloubier,
Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon, Rousset, Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, Beaurecueil, Le
Tholonet Vauvenargues, Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde, Pourrières, Artigues and
Rians.
D 10 and D 17 (Route Cézanne) are the main roads to skirt the
mountains. On the northern side, the D10 crosses the Col de Claps (530
m) and the Col des Portes (631 m). On the southern side, the D 17 walks
on the Plateau de Cengle and crossed the Collet blanc de Subéroque (505
m).
The southern side is characterized by the presence of
significant high limestone cliffs 500 to 700 m with the white appearance
added to the sun gives the appearance of a high muraille. At the foot
of the cliffs, there is more massive brush, oak, kermes oak, Aleppo pine
(population greatly reduced after the fire of 1989) but also cultures
(olive trees).
On the northern side among the many species present,
the Crocus is fairly well represented in the hills and the wild iris and
daffodil. One can also see various varieties and boxwood shrubs.
The massif rises to the Pic des Mouches (Peak of the Flies) (1011 m)
near the eastern end of the chain, and not at the Croix de Provence (946
m) near the west end and visible from Aix. The Pic des Mouches is one
of the highest peaks of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, behind the
peak Bertagne which reached an altitude of 1042 mètres and which is
located on the massif of Sainte-Baume.
Sainte-Victoire, as the range
of the Sainte Baume, can be considered a special case among the Alpine
ranges for the various stages of the formation of its relief associated
geological history as well as that of the old Pyrenean-Provençal chain
than that of the Western Alps (which have succeeded it).
Indeed,
from the former Sainte-Victoire mountain, contemporary of the dinosaurs
of the Cretaceous, it remains today only the fold Bimont, said Chaînon
des Costes Chaudes, the last vestige resulting from tectonic movements
and characteristics of the stacks of Pyreneo-Provençal phase during the
Eocene. Later during the Oligocene, breaking of the anticlinal fold of
Sainte-Victoire, which resulted from the uplift of the first great
Alpine reliefs, is causing a surge that help explain the current form of
the mountain, which appeared 15 million years BCE.
Sainte-Victoire,
whose calcareous sediments date back to the Jurassic, thus consists of
both a Pyrenean-Provencal vestige and of an alpine geology. This
singularity and this ambivalence help explain why, although a massive
western Alps, the problem of this connection remains complexe.
According to a recent study, the Sainte-Victoire is still growing ! The
company ME2i has indeed conducted a satellite survey between 1993 and
2003 providing evidence that during this period the western end of the
Sainte-Victoire was uplift of 7 mm per year.
The massif is a ensemble of 6525 ha classified since 1983.
The massive hosts several world-famous dinosaur eggs deposits including
the Roques-Hautes / Les Grands-Creux on the town Beaurecueil.
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