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Friday, July 14, 2023

CAPO DI NOLI PEINT PAR PAUL SIGNAC


PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935) Capo di Noli (283 m) Italie

PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
Capo di Noli (283 m)
Italie


A propos de cette toile
Capo di Noli est une peinture à l'huile sur toile réalisée en 1898 par l'artiste français Paul Signac dans le style pointilliste qui le rendit célèbre. D'une dimension de 93,5 × 75 cm, l'œuvre représente un cap sur la Riviera ligure, près de Gênes, à Noli. Signac y a fait une randonnée depuis Saint-Tropez deux ans avant l'achèvement du tableau, et de ses intentions, il a écrit qu'il « voulait amener chaque coin de la toile à l'extrême absolu en termes de couleur ». Le tableau est conservé au musée Wallraf Richartz de Cologne, en Allemagne.

Le cap
Il s'agit d'un promontoire rocheux et escarpé, reconnaissable à sa couleur gris-jaunâtre avec des taches sombres de végétation. Il est dominé par un ancien sémaphore et une tour. Il fait partie de ces lieux qui doivent leur célébrité a une tableau... en l'occurrence celui de Paul Signac ci dessus.

 

Le peintre
Paul Signac, est un peintre paysagiste français, proche du mouvement libertaire3 qui donna naissance au pointillisme, avec le peintre Seurat. Il a aussi mis au point la technique du divisionnisme. Cofondateur avec Seurat de la Société des artistes indépendants dont il fut président, il est ami avec Victor Dupont, peintre fauve et vice-président du Salon.
En 1892, il découvre Saint-Tropez, où il achètera cinq ans plus tard la villa La Hune, et organise les expositions posthumes de Seurat à Bruxelles et à Paris. Les Signac quittent Paris pour Saint-Tropez où ils reçoivent dans leur villa leurs amis artistes néo-impressionnistes, Matisse ou Maurice Denis. Il est passionné par la mer et possède un petit yacht avec lequel il navigue le long des différentes côtes françaises et italiennes.

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

CAP CANAILLE PAINTED BY PAUL SIGNAC


PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935
Cap Canaille (394 m -1292, 65 ft)
France

The mountain
Cap Canaille (394m) is a cape in France located in the the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region with a culminating point called " La Grande Tête"  (The great Head). It is located in the city of Cassis, north-west of La Ciotat. Its red rock is composed of detritic limestones. Going into the Mediterranean Sea, it consists of rocky and steep banks dominated by the western extremity of the Soubeyranes cliffs. The latter are, after the Slieve League in Ireland, one of the highest maritime cliffs in Europe and constitute, in La Ciotat, the highest cliffs in France with a maximum altitude of 394 meters. A road, the D141 called "Route des Crêtes", connects Cassis to La Ciotat by approaching the edge of the cliff.  Several gazebos are set up there with a spectacular view on the French Riviera and the sea. Cap Canaille is well known for having inspired a lot of painters of the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th. Its name is due to a distortion of the Provençal langage  Cap Naio  "Cap Naille" in French, meaning "Swimming mountain " or a distorsion of the roman latin name Mons Canalis meaning " Mountain  of Aqueducts".

The painter 
Paul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style. In 1884 he met Claude Monet and Georges Seurat. He was struck by the systematic working methods of Seurat and by his theory of colors and became Seurat's faithful supporter, friend and heir with his description of Neo-Impressionism and Divisionism method. Under Seurat's influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of Impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of Pointillism. Many of Signac's paintings are of the French coast. He loved to paint the water. He left the capital each summer, to stay in the south of France in the village of Collioure or at St. Tropez, where he bought a house and invited his friends.
Paul Signac, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon and Georges Seurat were among the founders of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. The association began in Paris 29 July 1884 with the organization of massive exhibitions, with the device "No jury nor awards". "The purpose of Société des Artistes Indépendants—based on the principle of abolishing admission jury—is to allow the artists to present their works to public judgement with complete freedom". For the following three decades their annual exhibitions set the trends in art of the early 20th century.
Signac himself experimented with various media. As well as oil paintings and watercolors he made etchings, lithographs, and many pen-and-ink sketches composed of small, laborious dots. The Neo-Impressionists influenced the next generation: Signac inspired Henri Matisse and André Derain in particular, thus playing a decisive role in the evolution of Fauvism.
As president of the Société des Artistes Indépendants from 1908 until his death, Signac encouraged younger artists (he was the first to buy a painting by Matisse) by exhibiting the controversial works of the Fauves and the Cubists.