Achille Laugé 1861-1944 - Coll

Le néo-impressionnisme dans la lumière du Sud

KORTE INHOUD

The Fondation de l'Hermitage is hosting Switzerland's first major retrospective of the French painter Achille Laugé (1861-1944). This fascinating artist followed his own unique path within the Neo-Impressionist movement, always remaining deeply attached to his native region of Occitania.The exhibition includes almost eighty works from every period in his career, highlighting the profound originality and extraordinary sensibility of this painter of everyday life. Laugé was inspired by his immediate surroundings and portrayed the area around his house in Cailhau, the flowers in his garden, his family and friends with great simplicity and elegance. His very pure technique involved juxtaposing the three primary colours in dots or lattices in a highly personal variation on the divisionist method.Unusual sensitivityThrough extensive experimentation, alone in the dazzling light of southern France, Laugé made the colour theory of Seurat and Signac his own. His profoundly original work demonstrates his intuition of co...
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2022Uitgever: Snoeck143 paginasTaal: FransGrootte:  288x240ISBN-10: 9461617550ISBN-13: 9789461617552

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