At the Louvre-Lens, naturalness returns at a gallop

A stylized forest, blue, green, brown.

With, at the end of the course, a great setting sun.

And, on the ceiling, veils of tulle as clouds.

Immersive and colorful: this is the scenography of the course that the Louvre-Lens devotes to landscape painting from the Renaissance to the present day.

The visual artist and videographer Laurent Pernot designed it as much to attract the simple flâneur as to fit the 172 very diverse works (including photography and cinema) selected by Vincent Pomarède.

This former director of the department of paintings at the Louvre has long pondered the subject.

He is particularly familiar with the production of Camille Corot, a cantor of the open air who studied in Barbizon and inspired many impressionists.

From the latter, he even brought the portable color box.

Before discovering it, we will have passed through an airlock, with the projection of clouds, waves, images of the cosmos.

Here we are like Edward G. Robinson in the visionary film...

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