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The Neue Pinakothek is an incredibly nice museum - it concentrates on art from the 1800-1920s. I went there on a very wet and cold Sunday morning (it is only 1 Euro on Sunday) in October 2009. This is my kind of art - I can look at something and not have to try to figure out what it is. This is definitely a must see site if you hit Munich.
Huile sur carton, 67 x 96 cm, 1908, musée Carmen Thyssen, Madrid.
Une foule s'est rassemblée sous le porche de l'église saint Louis au passage d'une procession religieuse. Cette scène, qui se déroule à quelques mètres de l'appartement de Kandinsky, est esquissée par l'artiste dans un de ses carnets de fin 1908, accompagnée de notes précises sur la couleur. Kandinsky s'intéressait à la technique pointilliste de Signac depuis 1904, comme en témoignent ses tableaux de contes peints entre 1905 et 1907. La présente œuvre revient sur ces coups de pinceau et ces fonds sombres, mais déploie une palette vibrante et arbitraire dérivée de Matisse et des peintres fauves, dont l'artiste avait vu le travail à Paris en 1906 et 1907. Kandinsky diffère cependant des peintres français en ce qu'il établit un contraste marqué entre les petites taches de couleur (dont beaucoup sont totalement non figuratives) et le fond noir, donnant à l'œuvre une qualité abstraite-décorative (cf. Jal, musée Carmen Thyssen).
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Posizionato a metà strada tra Marsiglia e Toulon, Cassis è un antico villaggio di pescatori, interessante da visitare, ma che è diventato ancora più celebre per la vicinanza con le meraviglie naturali delle Calanques, dei canyon rocciosi spettacolari che si tuffano nel mediterraneo.
Le Calanques sono la vera magia di Cassis, e si trovano ad ovest del porto, separando Cassis da Marsiglia.
Si tratta di veri e propri canyon rocciosi, una specie di fiordi mediterranei, causati dal sollevamento del livello del Mediterraneo alla fine delle ere glaciali, con il mare che ha invaso queste profonde e spettacolari valli fluviali creando un ambiente di rara bellezza.
Le rocce così spettacolari erano famose già al tempo del medioevo, ed una delle cave più antiche si trova proprio qui vicino a Cassis, Presso Pointe Cacau.
Numerosi pittori sono stati attratti dal fascino e dalla luce di Cassis. Diverse opere che ne rappresentano il porto, il paese, i calanchi e la natura circostante figurano nei più grandi musei.
- Emile Othon FRIESZ nato a Le Havre (1879 - 1949)
- Paul GUIGOU nato a Villars nel Vaucluse (1834-1871)
- CHAUVIER DE LEON (1835-1907),
- Adolphe Joseph MONTICELLI nato a Marseille (1824-1886)
- Jean-Baptiste OLIVE nato a Marseille (1848-1936),
- Félix ZIEM, peintre nato a Beaune (1821 - 1911).
- Joseph RAVAISOU nato a Bandol (1865 - 1925)
- René SEYSSAUD nato a Marseille (1867-1952)
- Francis PICABIA (1879-1953),
- Louis Mathieu VERDILHAN nato a Saint-Gilles nel Gard (1875 - 1928)
- Charles CAMOIN nato a Marseille (1879-1965),
- Auguste PEGURIER nato a Saint-Tropez (1856-1936),
- Georges BRAQUE nato ad Argenteuil (1882-1963)
- André DERAIN nato a Chatou (1880-1954)
- Paul SIGNAC nato a Parigi (1863-1935)
- Pierre AMBROGIANI nato ad Ajaccio (1906-1985)
- Maurice VLAMINCK nato a Parigi (1876-1958)
- Moiese KISLING nato a Cracovia (1891- 1953)
- Raoul DUFY nato a Le Havre (1877-1953),
- NARDI
- CANEPA
- Rudolf KUNDERA che visse a Cassis..
On the coldest day ever, a visit to see the best art ever, Metropolitan Museum, New York, February 2016.
Eglise romane Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Signac ; commune de Signac, département de la Haute-Garonne, région Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ce modeste édifice roman, à vaisseau unique terminé en abside en cul-de-four, est typique de la montagne commingeoise. Le portail de l’église fin du XIIème siècle ou début du XIIIème siècle permet de prendre conscience de l’influence régionale qu’a eu l’atelier de sculpteur de l’église de Saint-Béat. On est ici en présence d’une oeuvre d’art local, malhabile mais touchante : le sculpteur, avec ses moyens, a tenté de reproduire le tympan sculpté de Saint-Béat, réalisé au début du XIIème siècle. On retrouve, notamment, le cloisonnement des espaces : le Christ est isolé du symbole des quatre évangélistes par des baguettes sommaires remplaçant les colonnes boursouflées qui font la particularité du tympan de Saint-Béat.
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Coordonnées GPS : N42°54.325’ ; E0°37.641’
O Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, está localizado em Lisboa, Portugal. O museu está instalado num palácio do século XVII construído para os condes de Alvor. Este edifício é também chamado de Palácio de Alvor-Pombal.
Em 1770, o marquês de Pombal adquiriu-o ficando na posse da sua família por mais de um século.
Inaugurado em 1884, com a designação de Museu Nacional de Belas-Artes e Arqueologia, sendo o José de Figueiredo responsável pela sua organização e mais tarde nomeado seu primeiro director.
Actualmente o museu é conhecido por Museu das Janelas Verdes, pois é essa a cor das suas janelas. Em 1940 foi construído um anexo, que inclui a fachada principal. Este ocupou o lugar do Convento Carmelita de Santo Alberto, destruído pelo terramoto de 1755. A única coisa que resistiu foi a capela, agora integrada no museu.
Integrou, em 1983, a XVII Exposição Europeia de Arte Ciência e Cultura.
A 18 de Maio de 2006 data de inauguração, no Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, da memorável exibição da Colecção Dr. Gustav Rau - De Fra Angelico a Bonnard. Esta exposição tornou-se na maior já recebida em Lisboa e colocou Portugal na rota das grandes exposições de arte. A colecção, é importante dizer, reúne telas de Fra Angelico, Guido Reni, Renoir, Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Alexej von Jawlensky, Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, El Greco, Bernardino Luini, Paul Signac, Odilon Redon, Raoul Dufi, Canaletto, Frans Porbus, Max Liebermann, Camille Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gerard Dou, Jan van Goyen, Claude Monet, François Boucher, Joshua Reynolds, Pierre Bonnard e até mesmo Thomas Gainsborough.
Paul Signac（1863 - 1935）
Pastel and brush and ink on paper
18.7 x 11.1 cm
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Portrait of Mr. Félix Fiméon (1890) by Paul Signac
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The southern tip of the island of Outremeuse is occupied by the pleasant Parc de la Boverie, where we find the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Housed in the last surviving pavilion of the Universal Exhibition of 1905, the museum possess nearly 1000 works from 1850 to the contemporary period. It covers various artistic styles, ranging from Impressionism (Monet, Pissaro, Signac, Claus, Ensor, Van Rysselberghe...), Fauvism (Gaugain, Derain, Dufy, Friesz, Wouters...), Symbolism (Khnopff), Expressionism (Chagal, Picasso, Kokoschka, Permeke, Van den Berghe...), Abstract Art (Mortensen, Nicholson, Poliakoff, Vasarely...) and Contemporary (Tapiès, Van Velde, Viallat...).
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Bronwen brought this to the meeting for the Trains, Boats & Planes theme. It was lovely but I don't think it is still available at Puzzle Michele Wilson. It has a typical PMW cut and Bronwen found it took longer than she expected.
250pc Le Corne d'Or, Constantinople by Paul Signac.
I like jigsaws with this style of image and have found them at Liberty, Wentworth and most recently the Latvian supplier Puzzleprintshop. Seurat's paintings are most common, but also Signac & HE Cross.
PMW 's website currently offer
150pc LE PIN DE BERTAUD by SIGNAC (+80pc)
250pc/350pc LIGHTHOUSE AT GROIX by SIGNAC
250pc NOTRE DAME by LUCE
650pc DEUX FEMMES AU BORD DE LA MER by CROSS
Liberty currently offer Seurat's Grand Jatte and five by Signac:
Blessing of the Tuna Fleet at Groix 533 pieces
Port of La Rochelle 586 pieces
Sails and Pine Trees 238 pieces
The Herb Market, Verona 505 pieces
The Port of Saint-Tropez 533 pieces
Huile sur toile, 35 x 28 cm, juillet-août 1905, Metropolitan museum, New-York.
Les couleurs sont posées dans ce tableau de manière chaotique, la femme japonaise étant à peine discernable sur son rocher. Ce caractère formel résulte de la logique divisionniste et le chaos de Matisse répond à un principe appris auprès de Signac : "aucun point n'est plus important qu'un autre" (cf. kerdonis.fr).
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1328402/paul-signac-artworks-i-high-resolution-cc0-paintings-sketches?sort=curated&mode=shop&page=1
From the Museum label:
Along with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing nearly 100 snow paintings. In 1879 France experienced an extraordinarily severe winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works painted at his home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris along the Seine River. In "rabbit Warren, snow covers the ground, houses and vegetation in a frothy coat that results from the artist's vigorous brushwork. Throughout, small spots of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs and clothing of the man at right punctuate what is otherwise a predominately yellowish white and uninhabited fragment of nature,
From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=486:
Pissarro, primarily a landscape painter, was a driving force behind the impressionist group shows. Slightly older than the other members of the circle, he made many of the arrangements, reconciled disputes among painters, and contributed a number of canvases to all eight impressionist exhibitions.
Born in the West Indies, Pissarro worked mainly in Pontoise, a suburb of Paris. He was obliged to help run the family business during early adulthood, teaching himself to paint in his spare time. Although Pissarro's work was accepted to the Salon in 1859 and again in the later 1860s, he became embittered with the academic system. He in turn developed an impressionist style characterized by loose brushwork and a concern for reflected light.
By 1880 Pissarro began working in a new style: a thick application of paint in small crosshatched strokes. Five years later he met Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, and was impressed with their unique method. In 1886 Pissarro adopted a neo-impressionist style characterized by discrete touches of unmixed pigments that were often densely applied to form a complex web of color. However, he eventually found the meticulous technique too limiting and abandoned it in 1891.
Pissarro's political beliefs inclined toward anarchism. His paintings of peasants working in gardens or fields reflected his belief in the essential dignity of the laboring class. As anti-anarchist sentiments reached a climax in the 1890s, Pissarro went into exile in Belgium.
French, 1863-1935
This painting depicts the south of France in 1896, and shows Maxime to the left and St. Tropez to the center.
Signac, born in Paris, helped establish the Salon des Independents. He met Seurat, and the two developed Neo-Impressionism.
1891-92 painting by Henri-Edmond Cross, “The Golden Isles.” Originally owned by Félix Fénéon, and now in the Musée d’Orsay collection.
Installation view “Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde – From Signac to Matisse and Beyond”
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
August 27 – January 2, 2021
On the coldest day ever, a visit to see the best art ever, Metropolitan Museum, New York, February 2016.
1887. Oli sobre fusta. 27,3 x 35,6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nova York. 1975.1.210. Obra no exposada.
Imatge d’accés obert (Open Access, CC0), cortesia de The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1328402/paul-signac-artworks-i-high-resolution-cc0-paintings-sketches?sort=curated&mode=shop&page=1
Eglise romane Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Signac ; commune de Signac, département de la Haute-Garonne, région Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ce modeste édifice roman, à vaisseau unique terminé en abside en cul-de-four, est typique de la montagne commingeoise. Le portail de l’église fin du XIIème siècle ou début du XIIIème siècle permet de prendre conscience de l’influence régionale qu’a eu l’atelier de sculpteur de l’église de Saint-Béat. On est ici en présence d’une oeuvre d’art local, malhabile mais touchante : le sculpteur, avec ses moyens, a tenté de reproduire le tympan sculpté de Saint-Béat, réalisé au début du XIIème siècle. On retrouve, notamment, le cloisonnement des espaces : le Christ est isolé du symbole des quatre évangélistes par des baguettes sommaires remplaçant les colonnes boursouflées qui font la particularité du tympan de Saint-Béat.
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Coordonnées GPS : N42°54.325’ ; E0°37.641’
From Wikipedia: Arles (February 1888 – May 1889)
Van Gogh arrived on 21 February 1888, at the railroad station in Arles, crossed Place Lamartine, entered the city through the Porte de la Cavalerie, and took quarters a few steps further, at the Hôtel-Restaurant Carrel, 30 Rue Cavalerie. He had ideas of founding a Utopian art colony. His companion for two months was the Danish artist, Christian Mourier-Petersen. In March, he painted local landscapes, using a gridded "perspective frame." Three of his pictures were shown at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. In April he was visited by the American painter, Dodge MacKnight, who was resident in Fontvieille nearby.
On 1 May he signed a lease for 15 francs a month to rent the four rooms in the right hand side of the "Yellow House" (so called because its outside walls were yellow) at No. 2 Place Lamartine. The house was unfurnished and had been uninhabited for some time so he was not able to move in straight away. He had been staying at the Hôtel Restaurant Carrel in the Rue de la Cavalerie, just inside the medieval gate to the city, with the old Roman Arena in view. The rate charged by the hotel was 5 francs a week, which Van Gogh regarded as excessive. He disputed the price, and took the case to the local arbitrator who awarded him a twelve franc reduction on his total bill. On 7 May he moved out of the Hôtel Carrel, and moved into the Café de la Gare. He became friends with the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. Although the Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, Van Gogh was able to use it as a studio. His major project at this time was a series of paintings intended to form the décoration for the Yellow House.
In June he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. He gave drawing lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant, Paul-Eugène Milliet, who also became a companion. MacKnight introduced him to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter, who stayed at times in Fontvieille (they exchanged visits in July). Gauguin agreed to join him in Arles. In August he painted sunflowers; Boch visited again. On 8 September, upon advice from his friend the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, he bought two beds, and he finally spent the first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House on 17 September.
On 23 October Gauguin eventually arrived in Arles, after repeated requests from Van Gogh. During November they painted together. Uncharacteristically, Van Gogh painted some pictures from memory, deferring to Gauguin's ideas in this. Their first joint outdoor painting exercise was conducted at the picturesque Alyscamps. It was in November that Van Gogh painted The Red Vineyard.
In December the two artists visited Montpellier and viewed works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Museé Fabre. However, their relationship was deteriorating badly. They quarrelled fiercely about art. Van Gogh felt an increasing fear that Gauguin was going to desert him, and what he described as a situation of "excessive tension" reached a crisis point on 23 December 1888, when Van Gogh stalked Gauguin with a razor and then cut off the lower part of his own left ear lobe, which he wrapped in newspaper and gave to a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully." Gauguin left Arles and did not see Van Gogh again. Van Gogh was hospitalised and in a critical state for a few days. He was immediately visited by Theo (whom Gauguin had notified), as well as Madame Ginoux and frequently by Roulin. In January 1889 Van Gogh returned to the "Yellow House", but spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and paranoia that he was being poisoned. In March the police closed his house, after a petition by thirty townspeople, who called him fou roux ("the redheaded madman"). Signac visited him in hospital and Van Gogh was allowed home in his company. In April he moved into rooms owned by Dr. Rey, after floods damaged paintings in his own home. On 17 April Theo married Johanna Bonger in Amsterdam.
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
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Paul Signac "le clocher de Saint-Tropez" (1896) ; Collection Bemberg exposée à l'Hermitage sur la hauteur de Lausanne
De la parte derecha del bulevar solo vemos el angulo cortado en bisel que forma un muro delante del cual se encuentra una figura, marcando el comienzo del primer tramo del bulevar en dirección a la Place de Clichy. Posiblemente se trate del final del que aparece a la derecha en la obra de Béraud. Por delante de este, en primer término, se observa la curvatura del paseo central arbolado en el que sobresale un edificio con tejado a dos aguas junto a dos árboles y una farola. Que esta construcción se encuentre en un extremo del paseo central se deduce por las direcciones que a ambos lados del mismo marcan las huellas dejadas en la nieve por el tránsito de vehículos tirados por caballos, calesas, hippomobiles y tranvía à impériale, como vemos, mucho mayor por la zona de la derecha del bulevar, que forma la curva más cerrada y alejada, que por la más próxima al espectador en primer plano mucho más abierta.
En el esquema de la derecha, se han vuelto a señalar con un punto rojo el lugar de la toma de la obra del que parte una forma azul que dibuja el ángulo representado. Sobre ambos sectores del bulevar se han dibujado en verde claro las formas que corresponderían a los paseos centrales arbolados. Las flechas rojas indican la situación y dirección de las huellas dejadas por el tráfico según las pintadas por Signac. Finalmente, sobre el comienzo del primer tramo, hemos dibujado un cuadrado naranja y tres puntos oscuros que representan el edificio y los dos árboles así como la farola que aparecen en primer plano. Pero si la localización del lugar ahora está bastante clara, no ocurre así, cuando nos preguntamos por la identidad de la construcción que preside el inicio de este paseo de la derecha; de hecho nos condujo a pensar en otra posibilidad. No hemos encontrado ninguna imagen que pudiera darnos una pista o testimonio de lo que fuera y sólo la bandera parcialmente visible que aparece en él lo identificaría como una edificación de carácter oficial, tal vez un puesto de policía o una escuela, que ya no aparece en otras imágenes de la zona.
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1328402/paul-signac-artworks-i-high-resolution-cc0-paintings-sketches?sort=curated&mode=shop&page=1
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
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From the Museum label:
Along with Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro pursued the theme of snow throughout his career, producing nearly 100 snow paintings. In 1879 France experienced an extraordinarily severe winter, which Pissarro explored in this and other works painted at his home in Pontoise, 30 miles west of Paris along the Seine River. In "rabbit Warren, snow covers the ground, houses and vegetation in a frothy coat that results from the artist's vigorous brushwork. Throughout, small spots of color in the chimneys, greenish shrubs and clothing of the man at right punctuate what is otherwise a predominately yellowish white and uninhabited fragment of nature,
From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=486:
Pissarro, primarily a landscape painter, was a driving force behind the impressionist group shows. Slightly older than the other members of the circle, he made many of the arrangements, reconciled disputes among painters, and contributed a number of canvases to all eight impressionist exhibitions.
Born in the West Indies, Pissarro worked mainly in Pontoise, a suburb of Paris. He was obliged to help run the family business during early adulthood, teaching himself to paint in his spare time. Although Pissarro's work was accepted to the Salon in 1859 and again in the later 1860s, he became embittered with the academic system. He in turn developed an impressionist style characterized by loose brushwork and a concern for reflected light.
By 1880 Pissarro began working in a new style: a thick application of paint in small crosshatched strokes. Five years later he met Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, and was impressed with their unique method. In 1886 Pissarro adopted a neo-impressionist style characterized by discrete touches of unmixed pigments that were often densely applied to form a complex web of color. However, he eventually found the meticulous technique too limiting and abandoned it in 1891.
Pissarro's political beliefs inclined toward anarchism. His paintings of peasants working in gardens or fields reflected his belief in the essential dignity of the laboring class. As anti-anarchist sentiments reached a climax in the 1890s, Pissarro went into exile in Belgium.
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1863
Paul Signac is born in Paris on November 11 to Jules Jean-Baptiste Signac and Héloïse Anaïse-Eugénie Signac.
The Salon des Refusés, an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Salon, opens on May 15 at the Palais de l'Industrie in Paris. Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro are among the participating artists.
1871
The end of the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870 - January 1871) leads to the collapse of the Second French Empire and the downfall of Napoleon III.
The Paris Commune, a radical socialist government, exercises power over the city from March 18 to May 28.
Adolphe Thiers is elected president of the Republic on August 31.
Beginning of "La Belle Époque", a period of cultural, scientific, industrial and commercial development in France that would continue until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
1874
The first Impressionist exhibition opens on April 15 at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, the former studio of celebrated Parisian photographer Nadar. Among the participants are Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Camille Pissarro.
1881
Deeply inspired by Claude Monet, Signac decides to pursue painting and begins taking lessons under the French artist Émile Bin.
1884
Signac meets Claude Monet and Georges Seurat.
Signac helps found the Société des artistes indépendants and the Salon des Indépendants. Other founding members include Charles Angrand, Henri Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Camille Pissarro, Odilon Redon and Georges Seurat.
On December 10, the first Salon des Indépendants opens at the Palais Polychrome in Paris. Charles Angrand, Paul Cézanne, Henri Edmond Cross, Albert Dubois-Pillet, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Signac and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are among the artists exhibiting their works. The proceeds are donated to victims of the cholera epidemic.
The Salon of Les XX, led by Octave Maus, is inaugurated in Brussels.
1886
The eighth and final Impressionist exhibition is held from May 15 - June 15 at 1 Rue Laffitte, Paris. Signac and Georges Seurat are included in the exhibition, along with Marie Bracquemond, Mary Vassatt, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Odilon Redon and Auguste Renoir, among others.
Between August 20 and September 21, the 2nd Salon des Indépendants is held at a temporary building in the Tuileries Gardens.
The art critic Félix Féneon uses the term "Neo-Impressionist" to describe the painting of Georges Seurat and his fellow exhibitors at the Salon des Indépendants.
1887
Signac travels regularly with Vincent van Gogh to Asnières-sur-Seine, in the Île-de-Frnace region of north-central France, to paint landscapes and scenes of urban life.
Georges Seurat is invited to exhibit A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-86) in the Salon of Les XX in Brussels. Neo-Impressionism begins to hold in Belgium.
1888
Foundation of the groub of Nabis. Some of the artists associated with the group include Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Paul-Élie Ranson, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Paul Sérusier, Félix Vallotton and Édouard Vuillard.
1889
The Exposition universelle is held in Paris from May 6 - November 6. The Eiffel Tower, built for this special occasion, opens to the public on May 15.
Exhibition of works by Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School artists at the Café des Arts of M. Volpini, located on the grounds of the Exposition universelle.
1890
Vincent van Gogh commits suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise.
1891
Georges Seurat dies on March 29 at the age of thirty-one
Signac leaves Paris and settles in Saint-Tropez with his wife and mother.
1892
Signac begins sailing to the ports of France, the Netherlands and the Mediterranean Sea to paint landscapes.
1894
Marie François Sadi Carnot, elected president of the Republix in 1887, is assassinated on June, following a public speech delivered at a banquet in Lyon.
1895
Le Libertaire, an anarchist journal published in New York during the summer of 1858, is relaunched as a weekly in France.
1899
Signac publishes From Eugène Delacrois to Neo-Impressionism, a treatise describing the evolution of Neo-Impressionism.
1900
On April 14, the opening in Paris of the Exposition universelle of 1900, which celebrated the achievements of the previous century. This world's fair was visited by nearly 51 million people and displayed numerous technological innovations, including the moving sidewalk. Important landmarks remaining from the exhibition include the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the Pont Alexandre III.
1903
The inaugural exhibition of the Salon d'automne opens on October 31 at the Petit Palais in Paris.
1908
Signac is elected president of the Salon des Indépendants, a position he would hold until 1934, a year before his death.
1911
The Salon des Indépendants features a major grouping of Cubist works. Cubism begins to attract the attention of art critics, as well as the general public.
1913
Signac rents a home in Antibes, in the south of France, with his partner, fellow Neo-Impressionist painter Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange. On October 2, she gives birth to their daughter, Ginette.
The Armory Show in New York hosts major works by European avant-garde artists, including members of the Salon des Indépendants. Among the participants are Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Henri Edmond Cross, Marcel Duchamp, Othon Friesz and Vassily Kandinsky.
1914
World War I
(July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918): Germany declares war on France on August 3. The war will take the lives of more than 1,325,000 French soldiers.
1905
The Salon des Indépendants holds a retrospective of works by Georges Seurat.
On December 9, the Law on the Seperation of Church and State is passed by the Chamber of Deputies in France.
Birth of Fauvism at the Salon d'automne in Paris.
1915
The Salon des Indépendants temporarily closes its doors due to the war.
1918
An armistice is signed in northern France on November ii, marking the end of combat between France and Germany. This ultimately leads to the Treay of Verseilles, which is signed on June 28, 1919.
1920
On January 28, the Salon des Indépendants opens its doors again at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées in Paris. More than 3,000 works are shown.
1934
The Société des artistes indépendants celebrates its 50th anniversary. The annual Salon is held at the Grand Palais des champs-Élysées from February 2 - March 11 and features 2,000 exhibitors, including Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Kees van Dongen, Maximillien Luce, Albert Marquet, Signac and Édouard Vuilliard, Signac's partner, Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange, and daughter, Ginette, each show two paintings.
1935
Signax dies in Paris on August 15 from sepsis at the age of seventy-one.
"These drawinfs are something quite apart; most of them break through the confines of painting, innovating a highly unique and fantastic art, fantastic art of illness and delirium."
- Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884
Eglise romane Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Signac ; commune de Signac, département de la Haute-Garonne, région Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ce modeste édifice roman, à vaisseau unique terminé en abside en cul-de-four, est typique de la montagne commingeoise. Le portail de l’église fin du XIIème siècle ou début du XIIIème siècle permet de prendre conscience de l’influence régionale qu’a eu l’atelier de sculpteur de l’église de Saint-Béat. On est ici en présence d’une oeuvre d’art local, malhabile mais touchante : le sculpteur, avec ses moyens, a tenté de reproduire le tympan sculpté de Saint-Béat, réalisé au début du XIIème siècle. On retrouve, notamment, le cloisonnement des espaces : le Christ est isolé du symbole des quatre évangélistes par des baguettes sommaires remplaçant les colonnes boursouflées qui font la particularité du tympan de Saint-Béat.
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Coordonnées GPS : N42°54.325’ ; E0°37.641’
Huile sur toile, 45 x 56 cm, juin-juillet 1887 (F 342/JH 1256), musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo (Pays-Bas).
Si Vincent et son frère prenaient souvent leurs repas "chez Bataille", rue des Abbesses ou au Grand Bouillon - restaurant du Chalet, 43 avenue de Clichy, le tableau accroché Square saint-Pierre F 276/JH 1259 (voir ci-dessous) laisse penser que ce restaurant est situé à Paris :
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Il est de toute manière l'hommage le plus fervent que Vincent ait jamais rendu au néo-impressionnisme. La touche pointillée et les contrastes de couleur complémantaires (surtout ici le rouge et le vert, ainsi que la jaune et le mauve) sont appliqués avec recherche. Pourtant la structure réaliste y reste sous-jacente, notamment dans les chaises et les tables.
Le chapeau haut-de-forme accroché à la patère de façon incongrue dans cet intérieur estival est peut être une allusion à un détail vestimentaire qu'affectionnaient les néo-impressionnistes (cf. La Grande Jatte ou le Portrait de Signac, tous deux par par Seurat) (cf. F Cachin et B Welsch-Ovcharov).
Merci Michelangelo pour la photo :
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And God Created Woman (French: Et Dieu... créa la femme) is a 1956 French romantic drama film directed by Roger Vadim in his directorial debut and starring Brigitte Bardot. Though not her first film, it is widely recognized as the vehicle that launched Bardot into the public spotlight and immediately created her "sex kitten" persona, making her an overnight sensation.
When the film was released in the United States by Kingsley-International Pictures in 1957, it pushed the boundaries of the representation of sexuality in American cinema, and most available prints of the film were heavily edited to conform with the Hays Code censorial standards.[citation needed] Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich credited it for "breaking French cinema out of U.S. art houses and into the mainstream and thereby inadvertently also paving the way for the takeover in France of the New Wave filmmakers."[5]
A poorly-received English-language remake, also titled And God Created Woman, was directed by Vadim and released in 1988.
Plot
Juliette is an 18-year-old orphan in Saint-Tropez, France,[6][7] with a high level of sexual energy. She makes no effort to restrain her natural sensuality – lying nude in her yard, habitually kicking her shoes off and stalking about barefoot, and disregarding many societal conventions and the opinions of others. This behavior causes a stir and attracts the attention of most of the men around her.
Her first suitor is the much older and wealthy Eric Carradine. He wants to build a new casino in Saint-Tropez, but his plans are blocked by a small shipyard on the stretch of land which he needs for the development; the shipyard is owned by the Tardieu family.
Antoine, the eldest of the three Tardieu brothers, returns home for the weekend to hear Carradine's proposal and Juliette is waiting for him to take her away with him. His intentions are short-term, and he spurns her by leaving Saint-Tropez without her.
U.S theatrical advertisement, 9 April 1958
Tiring of her outrageous behavior, Juliette's guardians threaten to send her back to the orphanage, which will confine her until she is 21. To keep her in town, Carradine pleads unsuccessfully with Antoine to marry her. His infatuated and naive younger brother Michel sees his opportunity and proposes marriage to Juliette. Despite her love for Antoine, she accepts.
When Antoine is contracted to return home and work for Carradine, Juliette's behavior becomes increasingly disrespectful of her husband. In a huff, she takes one of the family's boats. When it develops engine trouble, she has to be saved by Antoine. While they are washed up together on a wild beach, she seduces him.
Juliette begins acting bizarrely. She takes to her bed, claiming to have a fever. She tells Christian, the youngest Tardieu brother, that she had sex with Antoine on the beach. When Madame Tardieu, mother of the three boys, hears about it, she tells Michel that he has to dump Juliette promptly. Michel goes to their room to talk with Juliette, but she has gone off to the Bar des Amis to drink and dance.
Michel tries to go looking for her, but Antoine locks him inside, telling him to forget her. Michel fights his brother for the key and heads out after Juliette.
Eric has been alerted that Juliette is making a spectacle of herself and comes to the bar to collect her. Juliette refuses to leave with him. Michel arrives but Juliette refuses to talk with him and continues her improvised and sexually suggestive dancing. When she ignores Michel's order to stop, Michel shoots at her. Eric steps in and is slightly wounded. Antoine offers to drive Eric to a doctor and they leave. Michel angrily slaps Juliette four times. She only smiles at him with satisfaction that she has provoked him to this behavior. En route to the doctor, Eric tells Antoine that he is going to reassign him to work elsewhere to put some distance between him and Michel and Juliette. He says: "That girl was made to destroy men". In the final scene, Michel and Juliette walk home together, hand in hand.
Cast
Brigitte Bardot as Juliette Hardy
Curd Jürgens as Éric Carradine
Jean-Louis Trintignant as Michel Tardieu
Marie Glory as Mme. Tardieu
Georges Poujouly as Christian Tardieu
Christian Marquand as Antoine Tardieu
Jane Marken as Madame Morin
Jean Tissier as M. Vigier-Lefranc
Isabelle Corey as Lucienne
Jacqueline Ventura as Mme Vigier-Lefranc
Jacques Ciron as The Secretary of Éric
Paul Faivre as M. Morin
Jany Mourey as The Orphanage Representative
Philippe Grenier as Perri
Jean Lefebvre as The Man who wanted to dance
Leopoldo Francés as The Dancer
Jean Toscano as René
Production
By the mid-1950s Roger Vadim was an established screenwriter and had written several movies starring his then wife Brigitte Bardot. Producer Raoul Levy wanted Vadim to write and direct a film starring Bardot, and suggested he adapt the book The Little Genius by Maurice Garçon. Vadim disliked the book and came up with a new story, one based on a trial of a woman who had been the mistress of three different brothers, and who killed one of them. Vadim was particularly taken with the attitude of the woman towards her lovers, the jury and the police. Levy liked Vadim's idea and obtained finance.[8]
Levy succeeded in raising finance from Columbia, who would provide color and CinemaScope provided Curd Jurgens was given a role. The parts of the brothers had already been cast so Vadim rewrote the script in two days to expand the part of an arms dealer so it could be offered to Jurgens.[8]
Reception
Box office
The film was a big hit in France, one of the ten most popular films at the British box-office in its year of release[9] and the biggest foreign-language film ever in the United States at the time.[10] The film earned $4 million in the U.S. (grossing $12 million), and a further $21 million around the globe.[2][3]
The film was extremely popular in Kansas City, where it played for a year at the Kimo Theatre, grossing over $100,000, a record for Kansas City at the time.[11] In Europe, this movie smashed attendance records from Norway to the Middle East.[12] It earned for France over $8 million, more than France's biggest export — "the Renault Dauphine".[13]
In the United States the film was released by Kingsley-International, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures as Columbia was forbidden to release a film with nudity and adult themes. The Catholic Legion of Decency gave it a "C" for "Condemned" rating. A Columbia spokesman stated that the film would have received twice as many bookings with a less restrictive "B" rating, but would only have done half the business.[14] Variety reported that in spite of the rating, the film broke "local records at the Paris Theatre, N.Y., and at other houses where it has played", and noted that "In Fitchburg, Mass., it actually outgrossed Ten Commandments."[15]
Author Peter Lev describes the film's impact in America:
And God Created Woman's impact on the film industry was significant. New Bardot films were eagerly snapped up by distributors, and old Bardot films were released or re-released. Prices for distribution rights to foreign films escalated overall.[16]
Critical response
When the film was released in the United States, Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, found Brigitte Bardot attractive but the film lacking and was not able to recommend it. He wrote: "Bardot moves herself in a fashion that fully accentuates her charms. She is undeniably a creation of superlative craftsmanship. But that's the extent of the transcendence, for there is nothing sublime about the script of this completely single-minded little picture. ...We can't recommend this little item as a sample of the best in Gallic films. It is clumsily put together and rather bizarrely played. There is nothing more than sultry fervor in the performance of Mlle. Bardot, and Christian Marquand and Jean-Louis Trintignant are mainly heavy-breathers as her men".[17]
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Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote: "The breezy erotic drama was laced with some thinly textured sad moments that hardly resonated as serious drama. But as slight as the story was it was always lively and easy to take on the eyes, adding up to hardly anything more than a bunch of snapshots of Bardot posturing as a sex kitten in various stages of undress. The public loved it and it became a big box-office smash, and paved the way for a spate of sexy films to follow. What was more disturbing than its dullish dialogue and flaunting of Bardot as a sex object, was that underneath its call for liberation was a reactionary and sexist view of sex."[18]
Rotten Tomatoes reports a 69% approval rating based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.[19]
Censorship
When released in the United States, the film was condemned by the National Legion of Decency.[20]
Police made attempts to suppress its screening in the U.S.[21][22]
Saint-Tropez (/ˌsæn troʊˈpeɪ, - trəˈ-/ SAN troh-PAY, - trə-,[4][5] French: [sɛ̃ tʁɔpe]; Provençal: Sant Tropetz [san(t) tʀuˈpes]) is a commune in the Var department and the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France. It is 68 kilometres (42 miles) west of Nice and 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of Marseille, on the French Riviera, of which it is one of the best-known towns. In 2018, Saint-Tropez had a population of 4,103. The adjacent narrow body of water is the Gulf of Saint-Tropez (French: Golfe de Saint-Tropez), stretching to Sainte-Maxime to the north under the Massif des Maures.
Saint-Tropez was a military stronghold and fishing village until the beginning of the 20th century. It was the first town on its coast to be liberated during World War II as part of Operation Dragoon. After the war, it became an internationally known seaside resort, renowned principally because of the influx of artists of the French New Wave in cinema and the Yé-yé movement in music. It later became a resort for the European and American jet set and tourists.
History
Aerial view of Saint-Tropez, with Pampelonne beach in background and the citadel and the port in the foreground
Citadel of Saint-Tropez
Map of Saint-Tropez (c. 1680)
In 599 BC, the Phocaeans from Ionia founded Massilia (present-day Marseille) and established other coastal mooring sites in the area. Through the writings of Roman historian and military commander Pliny the Elder, it was found that Saint-Tropez was known in ancient times as Athenopolis and that it belonged to the Massilians.[6] In 31 BC, the Romans invaded the region. Their citizens built many opulent villas in the area, including one known as the "Villa des Platanes" (Villa of the Plane Trees). The closest settlement to Saint-Tropez in antiquity is attested as Heraclea-Caccabaria, today Cavalaire-sur-Mer, situated on the southern end of the peninsula, while the gulf of Saint-Tropez was called sinus Sambracitanus, which likely survives in the settlement name of Les Issambres.[7]
The town owes its current name to the early Christian martyr Saint Torpes. Legend tells of his decapitation at Pisa during Nero's reign, with his body placed in a rotten boat along with a rooster and a dog. The body purportedly landed at the present-day location of the town of Saint-Tropez.[8][9][10]
Toward the end of the ninth century, long after the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, pirates and privateers began a hundred years of attacks and sackings. In the tenth century, the village of La Garde-Freinet was founded 15 km (9 mi) to the north of Saint-Tropez. From 890 to 972, Saint-Tropez and its surroundings became an Arab Muslim colony dominated by the nearby Saracenic settlement of Fraxinet;[11][12] in 940, Saint-Tropez was controlled by Nasr ibn Ahmad.[12] From 961 to 963, Adalbert, son of Berengar, the pretender to the throne of Lombardy who was pursued by Otto I, hid at Saint-Tropez.[12] In 972, the Muslims of Saint-Tropez held Maïeul, the abbot of Cluny, for ransom.[12]
In 976, William I, Count of Provence, Lord of Grimaud, began attacking the Muslims, and in 980 he built a tower where the Suffren tower now stands. In 1079 and 1218, Papal bulls mentioned the existence of a manor at Saint-Tropez.
Saint-Tropez "le vieux port" (the old port)
From 1436, Count René I (the "good King René") tried to repopulate Provence. He created the Barony of Grimaud and appealed to the Genoan Raphael de Garezzio, a wealthy gentleman who had sent a fleet of caravels carrying 60 Genoese families to the area. In return, Count René promised to exempt the citizens from taxation. On 14 February 1470, Jean de Cossa, Baron of Grimaud and Grand Seneschal of Provence, agreed that the Genoan could build city walls and two large towers, which still stand: one tower is at the end of the Grand Môle and the other is at the entrance to the Ponche.
The city became a small republic with its own fleet and army and was administered by two consuls and 12 elected councillors. In 1558, the city's captain Honorat Coste was empowered to protect the city. The captain led a militia and mercenaries who successfully resisted attacks by the Turks and Spanish, succored Fréjus and Antibes and helped the Archbishop of Bordeaux regain control of the Lérins Islands.
In 1577, the daughter of the Marquis Lord of Castellane, Genevieve de Castilla, married Jean-Baptiste de Suffren, Marquis de Saint-Cannet, Baron de La Môle, and advisor to the parliament of Provence. The lordship of Saint-Tropez became the prerogative of the De Suffren family. One of the most notable members of this family was the later vice-admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez (1729–1788), veteran of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
In September 1615, Saint-Tropez was visited by a delegation led by the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga that was on its way to Rome but was forced by weather to stop in the town. This may have been the first contact between the French and the Japanese.
Bust of Saint-Tropez during the Bravades
The local noblemen were responsible for raising an army that repulsed a fleet of Spanish galleons on 15 June 1637; Les Bravades des Espagnols, a local religious and military celebration, commemorates this victory of the Tropezian militia.[13] Count René's promise in 1436 to not tax the citizens of Saint-Tropez was honored until 1672, when Louis XIV abrogated it as he imposed French control.
The Gulf of Saint-Tropez was known as the Gulf of Grimaud until the end of the 19th century.
During the 1920s, Saint-Tropez attracted famous figures from the fashion world such as Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli. During World War II, the landing on 15 August 1944 began the Allied invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon. In the 1950s, Saint-Tropez became internationally renowned as the setting for such films as And God Created Woman, which starred French actress Brigitte Bardot.
In May 1965, an Aérospatiale Super Frelon pre-production aircraft crashed in the gulf, killing its pilot.
On 4 March 1970, the French submarine Eurydice, with its home port as Saint-Tropez, disappeared in the Mediterranean with 57 crew aboard after a mysterious explosion.
The motto of Saint-Tropez is Ad usque fidelis, Latin for "faithful to the end". After the Dark Age of plundering the French Riviera, Raphaël de Garesio landed in Saint-Tropez on 14 February 1470, with 22 men, simple peasants or sailors who had left the overcrowded Italian Riviera. They rebuilt and repopulated the area, and in exchange were granted by a representative of the "good king", Jean de Cossa, Baron of Grimaud and Seneschal of Provence, various privileges, including some previously reserved exclusively for lords, such as exemptions from taxes status and the right to bear arms. About ten years later, a great wall with towers stood watch to protect the new houses from sea and land attack; some 60 families formed the new community. On 19 July 1479, the new Home Act was signed, "the rebirth charter of Saint-Tropez".[14]
Climate
Saint-Tropez has a hot-summer mediterranean climate with mild winters and hot summers, although daytime temperatures are somewhat moderated by its coastal position.
Climate data for Saint-Tropez
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)12.1
(53.8)12.6
(54.7)14.3
(57.7)16.5
(61.7)19.7
(67.5)23.4
(74.1)27.0
(80.6)27.3
(81.1)24.3
(75.7)20.2
(68.4)15.6
(60.1)13.0
(55.4)18.8
(65.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)9.3
(48.7)9.6
(49.3)11.0
(51.8)13.2
(55.8)16.3
(61.3)20.0
(68.0)23.3
(73.9)23.4
(74.1)20.8
(69.4)17.1
(62.8)12.8
(55.0)10.3
(50.5)15.6
(60.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)6.5
(43.7)6.6
(43.9)7.8
(46.0)9.8
(49.6)13.0
(55.4)16.5
(61.7)19.5
(67.1)17.3
(63.1)14.1
(57.4)9.9
(49.8)7.5
(45.5)6.0
(42.8)12.3
(54.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)82.4
(3.24)82.8
(3.26)64.7
(2.55)53.2
(2.09)40.1
(1.58)25.7
(1.01)15.5
(0.61)27.8
(1.09)57.0
(2.24)104.9
(4.13)85.7
(3.37)72.2
(2.84)711.8
(28.02)
Mean monthly sunshine hours147.8148.9203.2252.1234.9280.6310.3355.5319.5247.0201.5145.52,748.1
Source: Climatologie mensuelle à la station de Cap Camarat.[15]
Economy
The Hôtel Byblos is a Grand Hotel built in the mid-1960s.
The main economic resource of Saint-Tropez is tourism. The city is well known for the Hôtel Byblos and for Les Caves du Roy, a member of the Leading Hotels of the World; its 1967 inauguration featuring Brigitte Bardot and Gunter Sachs was an international event.
Beaches
Tropezian Tahiti beach in 2011
Tropezian beaches are located along the coast in the Baie de Pampelonne, which lies south of Saint-Tropez and east of Ramatuelle. Pampelonne offers a collection of beaches along its five-kilometre shore. Each beach is around 30 metres wide with its own beach hut and private or public tanning area.
Many of the beaches offer windsurfing, sailing and canoeing equipment for rent, while others offer motorized water sports, such as power boats, jet bikes, water skiing and scuba diving. Some of the beaches are naturist beaches. There are also many exclusive beach clubs that are popular among wealthy people from around the world.
Toplessness and nudity
Saint-Tropez's Tahiti Beach, which had been popularised in the film And God Created Woman featuring Brigitte Bardot, emerged as a clothing-optional destination,[16] but the mayor of Saint-Tropez ordered police to ban toplessness and to watch over the beach via helicopter.[17] The "clothing fights" between the gendarmerie and nudists become the main topic of a famous French comedy film series, Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Troops of St. Tropez) featuring Louis de Funès. In the end, the nudist side prevailed.[18] Topless sunbathing is now the norm for both men and women from Pampelonne beaches to yachts in the centre of Saint-Tropez port.[19] The Tahiti beach is now clothing-optional, but nudists often head to private nudist beaches, such as that in Cap d'Agde.[20]
Port
Saint Tropez Port view
Aerial view of Saint-Tropez
The port was widely used during the 18th century; in 1789 it was visited by 80 ships. Saint-Tropez's shipyards built tartanes and three-masted ships that could carry 1,000 to 12,200 barrels. The town was the site of various associated trades, including fishing, cork, wine and wood. The town had a school of hydrography. In 1860, the flagship of the merchant navy, named The Queen of the Angels (La Reine des Anges, a three-masted ship of 740 barrels capacity), was built at Saint-Tropez.
Its role as a commercial port declined, and it is now primarily a tourist spot and a base for many well-known sail regattas. There is fast boat transportation with Les Bateaux Verts to Sainte-Maxime on the other side of the bay and to Port Grimaud, Marines de Cogolin, Les Issambres and St-Aygulf.
Events
Les Bravades de Saint-Tropez
Les Bravades de Saint-Tropez is an annual celebration held in the middle of May when people of the town celebrate their patron saint, Torpes of Pisa, and their military achievements. One of the oldest traditions of Provence, it has been held for more than 450 years since the citizens of Saint-Tropez were first given special permission to form a militia to protect the town from the Barbary pirates. During the three-day celebration, the various militias in costumes of the time fire their muskets into the air at traditional stops, march to the sound of bands and parade St. Torpes's bust. The townspeople also attend a mass wearing traditional Provençal costume.
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez
Each year, at the end of September, a regatta is held in the bay of Saint-Tropez (Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez). Many yachts are entered, some as long as 50 metres. Many tourists come to the location for this event, or as a stop on their trip to Cannes, Marseille or Nice.
Traditional dishes
The Tarte tropézienne is a traditional cake invented by a Polish confectioner who had set up shop in Saint-Tropez in the mid-1950s, and made famous by actress Brigitte Bardot.[21]
Demographics
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
17933,629—
18003,156−1.98%
18063,319+0.84%
18213,360+0.08%
18313,736+1.07%
18363,637−0.54%
18413,538−0.55%
18463,647+0.61%
18513,595−0.29%
18563,640+0.25%
18613,558−0.45%
18663,739+1.00%
18723,532−0.94%
18763,531−0.01%
18813,545+0.08%
18863,636+0.51%
18913,533−0.57%
18963,599+0.37%
YearPop.±% p.a.
19013,704+0.58%
19063,708+0.02%
19113,704−0.02%
19213,842+0.37%
19264,324+2.39%
19314,589+1.20%
19364,102−2.22%
19464,161+0.14%
19544,925+2.13%
19625,668+1.77%
19686,130+1.31%
19755,427−1.73%
19826,213+1.95%
19905,754−0.95%
19995,444−0.61%
20075,640+0.44%
20124,452−4.62%
20174,352−0.45%
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Infrastructure
Transport to and from Saint-Tropez
By sea
Saint-Tropez marina
The 800-berth port with two marinas hosts boats, including ferries. In the summer season, there is a ferry service between St-Tropez and Nice, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Saint-Raphaël.[24] Private yachts may also be chartered.
By air
There is no airport in Saint-Tropez, but there is a charter service to and from clubs, the town and Tropezian beaches by helicopter.[25] The nearest airport is La Môle – Saint-Tropez Airport located in La Môle, 15 km (9 mi) (8 NM) southwest of Saint-Tropez.[26] Other main airports are Nice Côte d'Azur Airport located approximately 95 kilometers and Toulon–Hyères Airport located approximately 52 kilomters from Saint-Tropez.[27] Marseille Provence Airport is located approximately 158 kilometres from Saint-Tropez.[28]
By land
There is no rail station in Saint-Tropez. The nearest station is Saint-Raphaël-Valescure, located in Saint-Raphaël (39 km (24 mi) from Saint-Tropez), which also offers a boat service to Saint-Tropez.[29] There is also direct bus service to Saint-Tropez, and the rail station is connected with bus station.[30][31]
There is a bus station in Saint-Tropez called the Gare routière de Saint-Tropez, located in Place Blanqui.[32] It is operated by Var department transport division Varlib [fr], which employs other transport companies to operate routes.
There are taxi services, including from Nice airport to Saint-Tropez, but they are expensive because of the long distances and the area's wealth.[31]
In the tourist season, traffic problems may be expected on roads to Saint-Tropez,[33] so the fastest way to travel is by scooter or bike. There is no direct highway to the village. There are three main roads to Saint-Tropez:
Via the A8 (E80) with the sign "Draguignan, Le Muy-Golfe de Saint-Tropez" – RD 25 Sainte-Maxime, 19 km (12 mi) -> on the former RN 98 – 12 km (7 mi).
A57 with the sign "The Cannet des Maures" -> DR 558, 24 km (15 mi) Grimaud until then by the RD 61 – 9 km (6 mi) through the famous intersection of La Foux.
Near the sea, the former RN 98 connects to Toulon-La Valette-du-Var, Saint-Raphaël, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, DR 93, called "Beach Road", with destinations to Pampelonne, Ramatuelle and La Croix – Valmer.
Town transport
Public transport in Saint-Tropez includes minibuses, providing shuttle service between town and Pampelonne beaches.[27]
Other means of transport include scooters, cars, bicycles and taxis.[34] There are also helicopter services[35] and boat trips.[36]
Because of traffic and short distances, walking is an obvious choice for trips around town and to the Tropezian beaches.[37]
Culture, education and sport
Paul Signac, Leaving the port of Saint-Tropez, 1901
A panoramic view of Saint-Tropez by Paul Leduc [fr] (1876–1943)
Paintings Galerie Ivan
The town has health facilities, a cinema, a library, an outdoor center and a recreation center for youth.[38]
Schools include: École maternelle (kindergarten – preschool) – l'Escouleto, écoles primaires (primary schools – primary education): Louis Blanc and Les Lauriers, collège d'enseignement secondaire (secondary school, high school – secondary education) – Moulin Blanc.[39][40]
There are more than 1,000 students distributed among kindergartens, primary schools and one high school.[41] In 2011, there were 275 students in high school and 51 people employed there, of whom 23 were teachers.[42]
Art
Saint-Tropez plays a major role in the history of modern art. Paul Signac discovered this light-filled place that inspired painters such as Matisse, Pierre Bonnard and Albert Marquet to come to Saint-Tropez. The painting styles of pointillism and fauvism emerged in Saint-Tropez. Saint-Tropez was also attractive for the next generation of painters: Bernard Buffet, David Hockney, Massimo Campigli and Donald Sultan lived and worked there. Today, Stefan Szczesny continues this tradition.
The contemporary artist Philippe Shangti imagined the design of Le Quai and L'Opera, restaurants located on the port of Saint-Tropez where he also exhibits his art collections. Centered on a specific theme, he always denounces different problems affecting society with provocative artworks.[43]
International relations
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France
Saint-Tropez is twinned with:
Vittoriosa, Malta[44][45]
Famous persons connected with Saint-Tropez
Saint Torpes of Pisa
Saint Torpes of Pisa
Portrait of Hasekura Tsunenaga
Portrait of Hasekura Tsunenaga
Statue of Admiral de Suffren de Saint-Tropez
Statue of Admiral de Suffren de Saint-Tropez
Brigitte Bardot at Saint-Tropez, 1963
Brigitte Bardot at Saint-Tropez, 1963
Louis de Funès during filming
Louis de Funès during filming
The most famous persons connected with Saint-Tropez include the semi-legendary martyr who gave his name to the town, Saint Torpes of Pisa; Hasekura Tsunenaga, probably the first Japanese in Europe, who landed in Saint-Tropez in 1615; a hero of the American Revolutionary War, Admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint-Tropez; the icon of modern Saint-Tropez, Brigitte Bardot, who started the clothes-optional revolution and still lives in the Saint-Tropez area;[46] Louis de Funès, who played the character of the gendarme (police officer) in the French comedy film series Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez and also helped establish the international image of Saint-Tropez as both a quiet town and a modern jet-set holiday target.[47]
In popular culture
The English rock band Pink Floyd wrote a song "San Tropez" after the town. Saint-Tropez was also mentioned in David Gates's 1978 hit "Took the Last Train", Kraftwerk's "Tour de France", Aerosmith's "Permanent Vacation", Taylor Swift's "The Man", and Beyoncé's "Energy". Rappers including Diddy, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, J. Cole, and Post Malone refer to the city in some of their songs as a favorite vacation destination, usually reached by yacht. DJ Antoine wrote a song "Welcome to St. Tropez". The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles is set in a drag night club in St. Tropez. Furthermore, Bulgarian singer azis wrote a song named "Сен Тропе"(Sen Trope). Also, Romanian singer Florin Salam wrote the song (Saint Tropez). Saint Tropez was also mentioned in Army of Lovers' song "My Army of Lovers." Their song "La Plage De Saint Tropez" was also dedicated to this town.
Gallery
Aerial view of the Cital of Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of the Cital of Saint-Tropez, France
Cannons of the Citadel
Cannons of the Citadel
Tour Jarlier
Tour Jarlier
Aerial view of the old town and the old port of Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of the old town and the old port of Saint-Tropez, France
Luxury boats
Luxury boats
Sailboats
Sailboats
Aerial view of Pampelonne Beach, Saint-Tropez
Aerial view of Pampelonne Beach, Saint-Tropez
Harbour promenade with cafes
Harbour promenade with cafes
Aerial view of vineyards in Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of vineyards in Saint-Tropez, France
Old gendarmerie station; popular spot for photographs[48] (cf. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez)
Old gendarmerie station; popular spot for photographs[48] (cf. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez)
Aerial view of the old town of Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of the old town of Saint-Tropez, France
Tarte tropézienne (tropezian pie)
Tarte tropézienne (tropezian pie)
The main gate to Citadel
The main gate to Citadel
Top-down aerial of the old town of Saint-Tropez, France
Top-down aerial of the old town of Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of the cemetery of Saint-Tropez, France
Aerial view of the cemetery of Saint-Tropez, France
List of media connected with Saint-Tropez
Non-exhaustive filmography
Saint-Tropez, devoir de vacances [fr] (short film, 1952)
Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Une fille pour l'été [fr] (1960)
Saint-Tropez Blues [fr] (1960)
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964) and its sequels Le Gendarme à New York (1965), Le Gendarme se marie (1968), Le Gendarme en balade (1970), Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres (1979) and finally Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes (1982)[49][50]
La Collectionneuse (1967)
La Chamade (1968)
Les Biches (1968)
La Piscine (1969)
Le Viager (1972)
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
Le Coup du parapluie (1980)
Le Beau Monde [fr] (1981)
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Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a French Neo-Impressionist painter. Together with Georges Seurat, Signac developed the Pointillism style. He was a passionate sailor, bringing back watercolor sketches of ports and nature from his travels, then turning them into large studio canvases with mosaic-like squares of color. He abandoned the short brushstrokes and intuitive dabs of color of the impressionists for a more exact scientific approach to applying dots with the intention to combine and blend not on the canvas, but in the viewer's eye. We have digitally enhanced some of his landscapes and seascapes, both from sketches and paintings into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use under the CC0 license.
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Cross' early works, portraits and still lifes, were in the dark colors of realism, but after meeting with Claude Monet in 1883, he painted in the brighter colors of Impressionism. He went on to become one of the principal exponents of Neo-Impressionism. He began his Pointillist period after spending time with Paul Signac in 1904. His later works are Fauvist, perhaps influenced by his acquaintance with Henri Matisse.