Pont-Aven
Encyclopedia
Pont-Aven is a commune
in the Finistère
department of Brittany in northwestern France
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and Paul Gauguin
, and who were joined in 1888 by Paul Sérusier
. They were collectively known as "Pont-Aven School
" (French: École de Pont-Aven, Breton: Skol Pont-Aven).
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art
(PASCA) is an international fine arts program located in the historic artists' colony of Pont-Aven (Brittany, France). The student body is made up of third- year university or art college honors students or post-baccalaureate art majors (fourth/fifth-year) seeking further study.
Pont Aven still attracts artist and art lovers with many commercial galleries in addition to the town's public gallery.
The town is at the interface of the tidal estuary and the freshwater river.
Just outside the town are the beech woods of the Bois d'Amour source of inspiration for many artists.
The town is close to Domaine de Kerlann Holiday Park on the road to the adjoining commune of Nevez.
To the northwest of the town, in the small community of Nizon, sits the beautiful ruins of Château de Rustéphan
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Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Finistère
Finistère
Finistère is a département of France, in the extreme west of Brittany.-History:The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth, and may be compared with Land's End on the opposite side of the English Channel...
department of Brittany in northwestern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Population
Inhabitants of Pont-Aven are called in French Pontavenistes.History
- Pont-Aven is mentioned among the towns which took part in the Breton anti-tax Rebellion of the Red BonnetsRevolt of the papier timbréThe Revolt of the papier timbré was an anti-fiscal revolt in the west of Ancien Régime France, during the reign of Louis XIV from April to September 1675...
against Louis XIV of FranceLouis XIV of FranceLouis XIV , known as Louis the Great or the Sun King , was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre. His reign, from 1643 to his death in 1715, began at the age of four and lasted seventy-two years, three months, and eighteen days...
in 1675.
Arts
Pont-Aven is mainly known because of the group of artists who flocked round Émile BernardÉmile Bernard
Émile Henri Bernard is known as a Post-Impressionist painter who had artistic friendships with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Eugene Boch, and at a later time, Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and...
and Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer...
, and who were joined in 1888 by Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier
Paul Sérusier was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.- Education :...
. They were collectively known as "Pont-Aven School
Pont-Aven School
Pont-Aven School is a term occupied by works of art iconographically due to Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term was focusing works of the artists' colony emerging there since the 1850s, and some decades later the work of the group of painters gathering around the artist Paul...
" (French: École de Pont-Aven, Breton: Skol Pont-Aven).
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art
Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art is an art school founded in 1993 by art historian Caroline Boyle-Turner as an international fine arts program for advanced under-graduate and post-graduate studies...
(PASCA) is an international fine arts program located in the historic artists' colony of Pont-Aven (Brittany, France). The student body is made up of third- year university or art college honors students or post-baccalaureate art majors (fourth/fifth-year) seeking further study.
Pont Aven still attracts artist and art lovers with many commercial galleries in addition to the town's public gallery.
Geography
The Aven River runs through Pont-Aven. The river has relatively favourable water quality, with pH levels slightly alkaline at about 8.5 and electrical conductivity of 19 micro Sienens per centimeter.The town is at the interface of the tidal estuary and the freshwater river.
Sights
Before Pont Aven attracted Gauguin and other artists it was a centre for milling with the river Aven being divided above the town to provide a mill race which powers a series of water mills. Whilst several of these retain their wheels only the last, the Moulin Poulguin is still capable of operating. The mill is now a restaurant and you can see the machinery inside.Just outside the town are the beech woods of the Bois d'Amour source of inspiration for many artists.
The town is close to Domaine de Kerlann Holiday Park on the road to the adjoining commune of Nevez.
To the northwest of the town, in the small community of Nizon, sits the beautiful ruins of Château de Rustéphan
Château de Rustéphan
The Château de Rustéphan is a small, ruined 15th-16th century manor-house in the Finistère département of France. It is located in the small rural town of Nizon, near Pont-Aven. It was erected by Jean Du Faou, chamberlain of France and grand seneschal of Brittany, who built the domaine in 1420....
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