Special correspondent in Deauville
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It all started with Baudelaire, his
Artificial Paradises
(1860) where the poet says how much our human spirit maintains a close relationship with the tree.
“You
are
a tree!”
is the enigmatic title that derives from it.
In more than 80 works, paintings, manuscripts, botanical documents, drawings, engravings, photographs, sculptures and films, Les Franciscaines de Deauville offers a journey through the trees to reflect on the human condition.
From the tree with its softly faded bark to the top of the Italian Giuseppe Penone, to the black and fantastic tree,
Sleepy Hollow,
with almost evil branches, drawn in pencil by the American Robert Longo;
from the
Red Tree
, a luxuriant and mystical feathered tree by Séraphine de Senlis, to
Bonnard's Happy and Promising Almond Tree in Blossom
, each has its own language, each tree says something about its time, its artist, what animates it.
From medieval scientists to contemporary photographers, like the…
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