Fleurs d’autisme au jardin du Docteur Gachet à Auvers-sur-Oise

In Situ

关键词: autism;    impressionism;    Gachet;    painting;    garden;    Auvers-sur-Oise;   

DOI  :  10.4000/insitu.21161

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Painted by Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissaro and Vincent Van Goch, the house and garden of Docteur Gachet at Auvers-sur-Oise were inscribed as historic monuments in 1991. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909) was a doctor who specialised in melancholy. He was an adept of homeopathy, an eclectic collector and friend of artists and even a painter and engraver himself when he had the time. He was, in short, a striking personality of the late nineteenth century. His house was acquired by the council of the Val d’Oise department in 1996 and opened to the public in 2003. It has about 12,000 visitors a year. I joined the cultural services of the department in 2002, in order to follow the work being done to make the garden accessible to the public. I am responsible today for the site’s artistic contents. An original initiative has set up a link between the garden and a group of apprentices from the centre for introduction to work and to social life (Centre d’initiation au travail et à la vie sociale - CITVS) at Jouy-le-Moutier, a centre based on the ‘Keys for autism’, a medical and educational institute associated with the John Bost foundation. The article here is an account of that initiative in four chapters. A first visit to the CITVS allowed me to meet the apprentices and the centre’s staff and to see the technical installations and their experimental garden. The group then visited Auvers-sur-Oise where I gave them some basic information about Docteur Gachet, his original personality, his friendships with various artists and, of course, Van Gogh’s stay at Auvers. Then, together, we visited Paris where we were able to see some of the paintings that Docteur Gachet’s heirs donated to the French State. And, finally, the apprentices came to the garden at Auvers to plant various plants corresponding with some of the paintings they had seen.

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