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Pont Aven - Chapelle Tremalo
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village of approximately 3000 inhabitants known and recognized thanks
to its painting school. This notoriety is behind the tourist flood that
the city lives in the estival period but remains a high place for all
poetry lovers. |
 Pont Aven - Gauguin
pictorial history of Pont Aven starts in 1860 when the painters are
attracted by the new fashion of the Breton subjects. From 1870, it is a
real American colony which settles in the area. Intrigued by this
success, Gauguin arrives in 1886.Il will meet Emile Bernard there and
will both give birth to an Avangardist style known as the Pont Aven
school. Pont Aven also hosts another great Breton artist in the
literary field. Visiting the municipal museum remains the adequate way
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approach the charms that attracted all these artists to the
area, this museum recalls the history of the painters and shelters
exposures of great quality. Otherwise, the hikers can go directly to
the spots immortalized by these painters. Such as “le bois d’Amour”
(the wood of Love) and “la chapelle de Trémalo” (the Trémalo chapel). |
| PS : More information on Art in Brittany is available through the "A Savoir" rubric of this site. |
