Program and excursions
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PLEASURABLE PAINTING IN PROVENCE
LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOP with Tjasa Iris
Historical
notes about Van Gogh in Provence
VAN GOGH AT ARLES
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Vincent
Van Gogh arrived to Arles on Monday 20 February, with the aim to found
"L'atelier du Midi" (atelier of the South), a home for artists, that
could there study the magic luminous light of the South.
He was then 35 years old. He had just approached Japanese painting.
Arles was suggested to him by Toulouse-Lautrec. |
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VAN GOGH AT SAINT
REMY
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Van Gogh came to
Saint Remy de Provence on 8th May 1889. He lived at hospital Saint Paul de
Mausole. His work from this period is most extraordinary. He produced 150
paintings and drawings. On 16st May 1890
Van Gogh leaves Saint Remy de Provence for Auvers sur Oise.
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Saint
Paul de Mausole, Van Gogh's hospital at Saint Remy
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Landscape painting workshop.
We will be painting on the paths around places that Van Gogh loved to
paint most in the last years of his life.
Strong emphasis on color theory. Slides of contemporary and modern art will be
shown each evening with emphasis on Van Gogh’s paintings.
We
will gather each morning and live for our painting locations. Four days will
be completely dedicated to the work of Vincent Van Gogh and his presence at
Arles and Saint Remy. We will visit the places where he painted his
most beautiful paintings during his stay in Provence. Two
days of our painting holidays will be dedicated to magic blue-violet lavender
fields, for those who will join us in July or
red poppies for those who will join us in May, that
are going to be flourishing in that precise moment of the year. We will also
visit historical villages, castles, wine farms with their spectacular gardens
and landscape.
Tjasa will also
introduce you to wine of the area and take you to local wine tastings.
The nature in this
places didn't change much since Van Gogh was painting there. It remained green,
savage, magnificly preserved. It remained a harbor of peace. You will discover
it while walking and painting along it's paths of light perfume and luminous
sun of the "Midi".
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Emphasis will be
put on perception and observation, as the bases to painting. I will help you
develop your personal outlook, as well as inspire your imagination in all
this magical places and to help you appreciate art to the full. We will paint
4 hours every morning. |
Chateau de Roussan at Saint Remy |
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Admissions
are opened to 8 participants of all levels, from the beginners to
advanced. Because the workshop
is limited to 7 participants, I encourage you to send your enrolment form
with deposit as soon as possible. In event of inclement weather, arrangements
will be made for indoor painting. There will be no rain dates or refunds for
inclement weather. I encourage non painter partners to join
us for daily excursions, meals and the evening art appreciation course by
offering them reduced rates. The lessons
will be contemporarily in English and Italian.
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Workshop
is consecrated to the love that Van Gogh had for the luminous South of France,
in memory of his "l'Atelier du Midi".
DAY BY DAY PROGRAM
DAY 1 we meet at 7.30 pm in the hall of Hotel La Muette. We will have dinner after that.
La Muette
rooms:
...our
first night dinner place near: 
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DAY 2 we paint from 9 am until 1 pm at the park where Van Gogh was painting. In the afternoon we go to see place of the "Yellow house" of Van Gogh. Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.
......yellow
house of Van Gogh: 
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DAY 3 we paint at Hotel Dieu garden (hospital of Van Gogh, where he painted a very famous painting) Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.
painting
at Hotel Dieu:
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DAY 4 we move to the country side near Saint Remy in the morning, to our farm house. You will paint in the country side around the farm house. Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.


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DAY 5
Visit to Saint Paul de Mausole, Van Gogh's hospital at Saint Remy. Lunch at a farmhouse. Painting around Saint Paul de Mausole. Slides at 6.30 pm.

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Saint Paul de Mausole's Hospital (Van Gogh's hospital) and park
lunch at a farm Mas de la Pyramide
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painting around Van Gogh's hospital
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DAY 6 painting at lavender fields. Visit to Chateau Romanin wine cellar in the afternoon. Slides at 6 pm and dinner in Saint Remy after that.
Provence in July:

Provence in May:
............................................. olive growth on the edge of Chateau de Roussan's park
winery
of Chateau Romanin:
..........................dinner
in Saint Remy ...... 
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DAY 7
In the morning painting at the farm. Afternoon for finishing paintings and visit to the village of Le Beaux and Chateau Estoublan, and another wine cellar Cave de Serragan. Final critique. Slides of Tjaša's work. Dinner at Chateau de Roussan.
final critique
to
see more photos of the final critique 20 July 2007 see
MORE PHOTOS ...




dinner
on the terrace 

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DAY 8 Departure after breakfast.

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