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The Arts Society Ashdown Forest
Crowborough Community Centre
Pine Grove East Sussex TN6 1FE
Thursday 9 Nov 2023
Members of the society free, visitors £7 per lecture. 2pm.
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‘The Lure of the Midi: Modern Artists and the South of France’ – a lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen . Ever since the late 19th Century, seduced by its intense light and sensual colours, visual artists have been irresistibly drawn to the Mediterranean coast of France. Claude Monet painted in Antibes in 1888; while in the same year, Van Gogh, dreaming of setting up a ‘Studio of the South’, persuaded Gaugin to join him in Arles. Cezanne’s roots, of course, lay in his beloved Midi, to which he returned for good in 1899. Meanwhile, in 1892, Paul Signac sailed into the unspoilt port of St Tropez, settling there and attracting a large numbers of the future Fauve group. In the early 20th Century, Renoir would make the Midi his home, as would Bonnard and Matisse; and after the second world war so too would Picasso and Chagall. Come along and hear about their lives there. Refreshments follow the lecture.