Vertical stone facing the sea

The cliffs give the landscape a natural architecture where rock, emptiness, sea and light clash on all scales.

The cliff is both a geological motif and a compositional device. Seen from the shore, it closes the space like a wall; observed from its summit, it opens a spectacular void towards the sea. Painters use its strata, arches and ruptures to measure light, wind and erosion. Étretat, Guéthary, Dover, Maine or Brittany inspire very different responses: naturalist precision, impressionist touch, post-impressionist synthesis or modern abstraction. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human story. Sometimes, the cliff welcomes a mythological figure or a perched church and then becomes the place of a human

The cliff transforms the coast into architecture: it contrasts the duration of the stone with the incessant movement of the sea.