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

MONT AIGUILLE PAINTED BY WILHELM STEINFIELD

WILHELM STEINFIELD (1816-1854)

Mont Aiguille  (2, 087m -9,209ft) 

France ( Dauphiné) 

In Gebirgslandschaft - Gebirgslandschaft im französischen Dauphiné. Im Zentrum der Mont Aiguille, 1839, Oil on panel,  52 x 41cm, 

The mountain 
Mount Aiguille (2, 087m -9,209ft) , located in the town of Chichilianne, is an advanced tooth of the eastern cliff of the Vercors massif, on the edge of Trièves, south of the department of Isere (France). It is one of the seven wonders of Dauphiné area.
From a geomorphological point of view, it is a structure left by the erosion around it, of the plateau of which it was originally part. Mount Aiguille owes its particular shape to this: a block of cliffs and a summit meadow, similar to the pastures of the entire Vercors plateau.
Mount Aiguille is a limestone scale previously attached to the rest of the Vercors massif. The base consists of a set of soft limestone and marl surmounted by a wall itself composed of a thick series of limestone more rigid. Its morphology results from the difference in the behavior of the layers in the face of erosion.
During the formation of the Alps, the layers of limestone, then lining the bottom of the Tethys, were raised, folded and fractured. The latter favored runoff, which caused significant erosion of the base of the needle (where the layers are softer), while whole sections of the wall collapsed as a result of the undermining of the base. base and by karstification of limestone layers. The countless active faults between Mount Aiguille and the Vercors Massif followed by the planing of the eastern flank of the Vercors massif by glaciers during the different glaciations of the Quaternary era have allowed its current isolation.

The painter
Wilhelm Steinfeld was an Austrian 19th century painter most known during his life for his landscape and mountains paintings. Strangely enough no informations are available about him except he was the son of Franz Steinfeld (1787-1868), very famous himself for his historical paintings.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau