Le Salvagnacois

Soft undulations of the hills and the fields. The play of light, the shades of colour, the diversity of the patterns and textures... Always changing perspectives... Around the Tescou plain, the countryside also has an artist's soul.

The "high yellow note":
The high yellow note, so characteristic of Arles' pictorial production, haunted Vincent van Gogh in the heart of the summer of 1888. The different versions he painted of the Sunflowers attest to his fascination with colour. Had he come to set up his easel on the hills of Tescou, Vincent would have impregnated the canvas with the same flagrancy... Summer indeed sets fire to the crops of the Salvagnacois. Ephemeral synonyms, tens of millions of sunflowers illuminate the landscape like so many suns. Here, the high yellow note colours the food more. All in opposition, it is the intense portrait of a deeply agricultural and peaceful country, "round and prosperous" as Georges Brassens sang. An appointment for artists who don't know themselves?