From classic landscape to contemporary abstraction · Painting living things and territory

Horses, wild animals, birds, gardens, trees, flowers, coastlines and mountains show that nature can be subject, decor, symbolic force or laboratory of color.

Painting nature never just means copying what is before the eyes. Classical landscape orders mountains, trees and architecture; romanticism transforms storm, forest or animal into emotional force; impressionism observes the changing light directly in front of the motif; modern art simplifies or intensifies shapes and colors. The collection brings together this broad story from several entrance doors. Horses, tigers, lions and macaws give the living a physical or symbolic presence. The collection brings together this broad story from several entrance doors. Horses, tigers, lions and macaws give the living a physical or symbolic presence. Franz von Stuck brings together this broad story from several entrance doors. Horses, tigers, lions and macaws give the living a physical or symbolic presence. Franz von Stuck gives the living a physical or symbolic presence. Franz von Stuck gives the living a physical or symbolic presence. Franz von Stuck gives the living a physical or symbolic presence. Franz von Stuck makes the fight between Samson and the lion a mythical ordeal. At Claude Monet's, houses, lilacs, gardens of Argenteuil, Sainte- that modern nature is often cultivated, inhabited and close to the city. Contemporary and abstract works do not necessarily leave reality: they isolate movement, energy, silhouette or palette. A nature painting can thus produce depth, calm, power or rhythm depending on the framing. To choose a reproduction, you must look less at the general subject than at the concrete structure: open horizon, centered animal, enveloping foliage, contrast between sky and earth, or touch that dissolves the contours. The "Nature painting" selection notably compares Horse and Abstract Horse.

Painted nature is never silent: it speaks through the horizon, the season, the movement of an animal and the way color transforms our distance from the world.