Culture
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Painting
"C'est le plus joli village que j'avais vu jusqu'à présent, avec son pont étrange au dessus d'une rivière rapide qui fait tourner plusieurs roues à eau pittoresques et s'en va vers la mer, à peu de distance"
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One beautiful day in July of 1864, Bacon, an American painter, was hurrying from Concarneau to Quimperlé so he could catch a train for Paris and stopped in Pont-Aven for a short while: "This is the pr...
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When the Parisian studios closed for summer in August of 1865, Wylie and Way wondered where to go and Bacon advised them to head to Pont-Aven. That is how Wylie came to be in Pont-Aven. He liked it so...
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Gauguin didn't begin painting until late in life, after he had been a sailor and worked as a stockbroker. He was 38 when, influenced by the impressionists (especially Pissarro), he decided to dedi...
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