From ancient everyday life to modernity · Housing, work and community

Saxon cuisine, Flemish festival, snowy street, Japanese hamlet and modern village show the inhabited place as landscape, memory and social scene.

The village is both a form in the landscape and a human community. In ancient painting, he often appears through his activities: cooking, partying, charlatan, crafts or field work. Teniers observes Flemish sociability; Hutin and Lhermitte bring the gaze closer to domestic gestures and work. In the 19th century, the village also became a territory: plowed fields, surroundings, cottages in the dunes and houses at the foot of a mountain allow us to read the relationship between habitat and nature. Asian traditions offer other continuities. Hokusai places Sekiya in the movement of the road and the river; Uragami Gyokudô dissolves a village in the autumn mountains; a Thai story transforms villagers into moral actors. Modernity then fragments the space. Schiele narrows houses and hills, Utrillo transforms streets and squares with snow or white walls, Klee reconstructs a village and carnival using signs and colors. This collection is therefore not limited to rural architecture: it explores six experiences - living, working, celebrating, crossing, isolating and reinventing. The "Village landscapes" selection therefore does not limit itself to rural architecture: it explores six experiences - living, working, celebrating, crossing, isolating and reinventing. The "Village landscapes" selection notably compares Saxon Villager in a kitchen - Charles-François Hutin and Village Festival and Festival. His reading favors the material.

A painted village is a measure of the world: a few houses are enough to connect work, season, landscape and collective life.