LUSHAN / 庐山 AQUARELLÉ PAR JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)

Lushan / 庐山 ou Mont Lu (1,474m- 4,834ft)

Chine

In " Lushan, Chine," lavis 2018, 36 x5 1,5cm, Collection privée ©Jean-Baptiste Née
@jeanbaptiste.nee

The artist
Jean-Baptiste Née, né en 1986. est un artiste peintre, scénographe et plasticien français, diplômé des Arts-Décoratifs de Paris en 2012. Jean-Baptiste Née travaille la montagne et la haute montagne, toujours in situ, en confrontation directe avec les mouvements de la terre, de l'eau et du vent. Il donne une place toujours plus importante à l'interaction des éléments sur les œuvres qu'il réalise  (pluie, neige, gel, etc.). Il installe son "grand atelier" dans les Alpes suisses ou dans le massif du Vercors - surtout en hiver -, ainsi que lors de longues randonnées dans les Alpes italiennes. A l'hiver 2018, il travaille dans les massifs du Wudangshan et du Lushan, en Chine, et s'intéresse à la notion taoïste de "Ciel". Depuis 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née expose régulièrement dans des galeries en France et en Suisse. Son atelier est à Montreuil, France.

DANS L'INCONNU

Exposition collective, du 21 octobre au 25 novembre 2023
vernissage le samedi 21 octobre, à 16h
ouverture les samedi et dimanche, de 14h à 19h
avec : Olivier Giroud (sculpture), Alexandre Hollan (peinture), Sophie Melon (sculpture)

Galerie La Navire (Brest)
33 Kreiz Ker
29880 Plouguerneau

 

The mountain
Mont Lu or Lushan (庐山) ( (1,474m- 4,834ft) est situé dans la partie nord de la province du Jiangxi, dans le sud-est de la Chine, et constitue l'une des montagnes les plus célèbres du pays. Le mont Lushan est l'un des centres spirituels de la civilisation chinoise. Les temples bouddhistes et taoïstes, ainsi que les monuments du confucianisme, où ont enseigné les maîtres les plus éminents, se fondent sans effort dans un paysage d'une beauté saisissante qui a inspiré d'innombrables artistes développant une approche esthétique de la nature que l'on retrouve dans la culture chinoise.
Les montagnes de forme ovale mesurent environ 25 km de long et 10 km de large et sont voisines de la ville de Jiujiang et du fleuve Yangtze au nord, de la ville de Nanchang au sud et du lac Poyang à l'est. Son point culminant est le pic Dahanyang (1 474 m) qui fait partie des centaines de sommets abrupts dominant une mer de nuages  englobant les montagnes pendant près de 200 jours par an. Le mont Lu est connu pour sa grandeur, son escarpement et sa beauté et fait partie du parc national de Lushan, site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1996, et une attraction touristique de premier plan, en particulier pendant les mois d'été, lorsque le temps est plus frais.
Lushan était une station d'été pour les missionnaires occidentaux en Chine. Absalom Sydenstricker, le père de Pearl Buck, fut l'un des cinq premiers missionnaires à acquérir une propriété dans le domaine Kuling sur la montagne.
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2023 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
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MONT WUDANG PEINT PAR JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
Mont Wudang / 武当山 ( 1,610m - 5, 282 ft)
China (Hubei)

In "Wudangshan (X)," lavis, 2018, 28 x 38cm, Collection privée ©Jean-Baptiste Née
@jeanbaptiste.nee

L'artiste
Jean-Baptiste Née, né en 1986. est un artiste peintre, scénographe et plasticien français, diplômé des Arts-Décoratifs de Paris en 2012. Jean-Baptiste Née travaille la montagne et la haute montagne, toujours in situ, en confrontation directe avec les mouvements de la terre, de l'eau et du vent. Il donne une place toujours plus importante  à l'interaction des éléments sur les œuvres qu'il réalise  (pluie, neige, gel, etc.). Il installe son "grand atelier" dans les Alpes suisses ou dans le massif du Vercors - surtout en hiver -, ainsi que lors de longues randonnées dans les Alpes italiennes. A l'hiver 2018, il travaille dans les massifs du Wudangshan et du Lushan, en Chine, et s'intéresse à la notion taoïste de "Ciel". Depuis 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née expose régulièrement dans des galeries en France et en Suisse. Son atelier est à Montreuil, France.

Les montagnes
Les monts Wudang /武当山 (1 610 m - se composent d'une chaîne de montagnes située dans la partie nord-ouest du Hubei, en Chine, juste au sud de Shiyan. Ils abritent un célèbre complexe de temples et de monastères taoïstes associés au Seigneur du Nord, Xuantian Shangdi. Les monts Wudang sont réputés pour la pratique du Tai-chi et du taoïsme et font figure d'équivalent taoïste du monastère de Shaolin, qui est affilié au bouddhisme Chán. Les monts Wudang sont l'une des "quatre montagnes sacrées du taoïsme", une destination importante pour les pèlerinages taoïstes. Les monastères tels que Le Jardin de Wudang ont été classés au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO en 1994 en raison de leur importance religieuse et de leurs réalisations architecturales. Sur les cartes chinoises, le nom "Wudangshan" s'applique à la fois à l'ensemble de la chaîne de montagnes (qui s'étend d'est en ouest le long du bord sud de la rivière Han, traversant plusieurs divisions au niveau du comté de Shiyan), et jusqu'au groupe de pics situés dans le sous-district de Wudangshan de Danjiangkou, Shiyan. C'est cette dernière zone spécifique qui est connue comme un centre taoïste. Certains considèrent les monts Wudang comme une "branche" de la chaîne des monts Daba, qui est un système montagneux majeur dans l'ouest du Hubei, du Shaanxi, de Chongqing et du Sichuan.

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2023 - Wandering Vertexes ....
Errant au-dessus des Sommets Silencieux...
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WUDANGSHAN / 武当山 PAINTED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
Wudangshan / 武当山 ( 1,610m - 5, 282 ft)
China (Hubei)

In "Wudangshan (X)," lavis, 2018, 28 x 38cm, 

Collection privée ©Jean-Baptiste Née
@jeanbaptiste.nee

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, (see above) and became interested in the Taoist notion of "Sky" (t’ien 天).Since 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née exhibits regularly in galleries in France and Switzerland. His workshop is in Montreuil, France.

The mountains
The Wudang Mountains /武当山 (1,610m - consist of a mountain range in the northwestern part of Hubei, China, just south of Shiyan. They are home to a famous complex of Taoist temples and monasteries associated with the Lord of the North, Xuantian Shangdi. The Wudang Mountains are renowned for the practice of Tai chi and Taoism as the Taoist counterpart to the Shaolin Monastery, which is affiliated with Chinese Chán Buddhism. The Wudang Mountains are one of the "Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism" in China, an important destination for Taoist pilgrimages. The monasteries such as the Wudang Garden were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 because of their religious significance and architectural achievement.  On Chinese maps, the name "Wudangshan" is applied both to the entire mountain range (which runs east-west along the southern edge of the Han River, crossing several county-level divisions of Shiyan), and to the group of peaks located within Wudangshan subdistrict of Danjiangkou, Shiyan. It is the latter specific area which is known as a Taoist center.  ome consider the Wudang Mountains to be a "branch" of the Daba Mountains range, which is a major mountain system in western Hubei, Shaanxi, Chongqing and Sichuan.
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2022- Wandering Vertexes.
A blog by Francis Rousseau

LUSHAN / 庐山 or MOUNT LU SKETCHED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
Lushan / 庐山 or Mount Lu (1,474m- 4,834ft)
China

In Lushan ,Chine, Lavis 2018, 19x 28cm , Collection privée ©Jean-Baptiste Née
@jeanbaptiste.nee

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, (see above) and became interested in the Taoist notion of "Sky" (t’ien 天).
Since 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née exhibits regularly in galleries in France and Switzerland. His workshop is in Montreuil, France.

The mountain
Mount Lu or Lushan (庐山) ( (1,474m- 4,834ft) is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in southeastern China, and is one of the most renowned mountains in the country. Mount Lushan is one of the spiritual centres of Chinese civilization. Buddhist and Taoist temples, along with landmarks of Confucianism, where the most eminent masters taught, blend effortlessly into a strikingly beautiful landscape which has inspired countless artists who developed the aesthetic approach to nature found in Chinese culture.
The oval-shaped mountains are about 25 km long and 10 km wide, and neighbors Jiujiang city and the Yangtze River to the north, Nanchang city to the south, and Poyang Lake to the east. Its highest point is Dahanyang Peak (1,474m- 4,834ft) and is one of the hundreds of steep peaks that towers above a sea of clouds that encompass the mountains for almost 200 days out of the year. Mount Lu is known for its grandeur, steepness, and beauty, and is part of Lushan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, and a prominent tourist attraction, especially during the summer months when the weather is cooler.
Lushan was a summer resort for Western missionaries in China. Absalom Sydenstricker, the father of Pearl Buck was one of the first five missionaries to acquire property in the Kuling Estate on the mountain.
More about Mount Lu

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2022- Wandering Vertexes.
A blog by Francis Rousseau

LE GRAND VEYMONT SKETCHED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN -BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
Le Grand Veymont (2,341m - 7,680 ft)
France (Vercors)

In Vercors, hiver, paroi, gel (II), lavis, 2019, 16 x 25cm

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,
Le Grand Veymont (2,341m - 7,680 ft)( is  a mountain in the district of Gresse-en-Vercors, part of the department of Isère, France, is the highest point of the Massif du Vercors, but not the highest of the Vercors Regional Natural Park (which is the Rocher Rond at 2,453m).  It has a prominence of 1165 metres and an isolation of 26.88 kilometres. It is situated between le Pas de la Ville to the north and le Pas des Chattons to the south, and is part of the eastern edge of the high plateau of the Massif du Vercors.  It is preceded to the north by (north to south) "le Rocher de Séguret" (the Rock of Séguret, 2051 metres), "Roche Rousse" (Red Rock, 2105 metres), and "le Sommet de Pierre-Blanche" (the Summit of White Rock, 2106 metres)  and followed to the south (north to south) by Petit Veymont or Aiguillette (little Veymont or small needle, 2120 metres) and Mont Aiguille (Mount Needle, 2085 metres). Due to its location in the Parc du Vercors, it is far from any paved road. A moderately easy route to the summit involves walking about 10 km, hiking through the backcountry.
On 10 February 2007, a twin-engine light aircraft flying from London to Cannes disappeared in a snowstorm over le Grand Veymont, crashing into the mountainside and killing all three people aboard. The bodies and wreckage were recovered less than 24 hours later, at around 1960 metres above sea level, close to the Pas de la Ville, after a rescue operation involving more than one hundred policemen, firemen, mountain rescue specialists, and three helicopters equipped with infra-red cameras.

MONTAGNE SAINTE-VICTOIRE ( 2) SKETCHED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
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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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

MONTAGNE SAINTE VICTOIRE BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
The Montagne Sainte Victoire (1, 011m - 2, 216 ft)
France (Provence Alpes Côte d'azur)

 In  La  Sainte Victoire  Fusain, 29,  x 42cm,  2008.

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. His new 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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2021 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

LES ROCHERS DU PARQUET (VERCORS) PAINTED BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)
Les Rochers du Parquet  2, 004 m - 6, 574 ft)
France

In "Vercors, hiver, plateau, vent",gouache sur papier  2019, 32, 5  x 50cm,

©Jean-Baptiste Née @jeanbaptiste.nee

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" (t’ien.
Since 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née exhibits regularly in galleries in France and Switzerland. His workshop is in Montreuil, France. Next exhibition th 8th April  in Galeria Obsucra in Paris. A book was recently published about his work  "Le monde nu" Éditions Hartpon. Contact @jeanbaptiste.nee

The mountain  

The Rochers du Parquet (2,004 m-) make the eastern edge of the Vercors to the west of Mont Aiguille. They take the form of a long cliff  facing Mont Aiguille. They support the highlands of Vercors and its nature reserve. A few climbing routes have been traced there. They are separated from the more northerly steep slopes of the Grand Veymont by the deep notch of the Pas des Bachassons. The deep indentation of the cliff separates the towers of Rochers du Parquet from the rest of the long cliff which runs towards the Pas de l'Aiguille. 
The crossing of the Rochers du Parquet is a superb hike typical of the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors. 

The course takes place in a landscape where Mont Aiguille is constantly visible.

The Vercors presents the characteristic of presenting numerous possible passages, talwegs, ridges, valleys and basins, without any obvious particularity to facilitate the description of a route - no cairns either at the beginning of the crossing.

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2021- Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

LUSHAN / 庐山 BY JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE

 

JEAN-BAPTISTE NÉE (b.1986)

Lushan / 庐山 or Mount Lu (1,474m- 4,834ft)

China

 In  Lushan (IX), lavis, 2018, 14x19cm,  Collection privée ©Jean-Baptiste Née 

@jeanbaptiste.nee 

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, (see above) and became interested in the Taoist notion of "Sky" (t’ien 天).
Since 2016, Jean-Baptiste Née exhibits regularly in galleries in France and Switzerland. His workshop is in Montreuil, France.

The mountain
Mount Lu or Lushan (庐山)  ( (1,474m- 4,834ft) is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in southeastern China, and is one of the most renowned mountains in the country. Mount Lushan is one of the spiritual centres of Chinese civilization. Buddhist and Taoist temples, along with landmarks of Confucianism, where the most eminent masters taught, blend effortlessly into a strikingly beautiful landscape which has inspired countless artists who developed the aesthetic approach to nature found in Chinese culture.
The oval-shaped mountains are about 25 km long and 10 km wide, and neighbors Jiujiang city and the Yangtze River to the north, Nanchang city to the south, and Poyang Lake to the east. Its highest point is Dahanyang Peak (1,474m- 4,834ft) and is one of the hundreds of steep peaks that towers above a sea of clouds that encompass the mountains for almost 200 days out of the year. Mount Lu is known for its grandeur, steepness, and beauty, and is part of Lushan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, and a prominent tourist attraction, especially during the summer months when the weather is cooler.
Lushan was a summer resort for Western missionaries in China. Absalom Sydenstricker, the father of Pearl Buck was one of the first five missionaries to acquire property in the Kuling Estate on the mountain.
More about Mount Lu  

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2020- Wandering Vertexes... / Mountain paintings
A blog by Francis Rousseau