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Martine VEGA : la " dompteuse " des couleurs

La peinture de Vega est un volcan qui bouillonne.
The painting of Vega is a volcano that bubbles.

His " Sunflowers " are not those of Vincent.
They don't have in common that the color.
Besides, they don't look like sunflowers, these are simple yellow flowers.
The choice of the title refers to their color.
The world of Vega is directly a set of pure colors exits of the tube and calm on canvas.
No previous mixture takes place on the palette.
This mixture makes itself directly on canvas.
The vanishing point, in term of perspective, is absent.
The notion of depth is given by the terracing of people, of the animals… as one can see it in the rupestrian painting.
In short, one could associate the painting of Martine Vega to the expressionist canvases.
Their significance is identical.
The artist of writing its moods.
The techniques of drawings join themselves.
The characters are surrounded.
The fauvisme appears with the quick color use.

Francisco BAJÉN : le peintre du silence

To look at the œuvres of Bajén, it impregnate themselves of a certain appeasement, of an incontestable sweetness.
It meet also in a harmonious world where each has its place.
He orders his topics rigorously with stripped shapes.
The elegance of the contours coats the youth of the bodies or the sensuality of woman's flesh.
The woman agrees to her own femininity; with the man she forms a privileged and harmonious couple; with the animal or the object, she becomes attentive and doesn't submit to any terseness.
Bajén illuminates his pictures of a light made of multiple fine keys that were worth him a big success in the United States.
Since his birth, in 1912, Francisco Bajén continues to embellish our life of his painting.

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Musée Bajén-Véga

Place de la Mairie s’ouvre le musée Bajén-Véga. De cette maison ancienne où descendait l’évêque seigneur du lieu, dans la seconde moitié du XVIII° siècle, le peintre Francisco Bajén a fait don à la municipalité.
A charge pour elle de l’aménager pour y exposer essentiellement les peintures de Martine Véga, sa femme. Après l’acquisition de la maison voisine, le musée occupe tout l’angle sud-est de la place de la Mairie.

Il abritera aussi, dans l’aile longeant la rue Jean Jaurès — ancienne rue de Groc —, une salle réservée à l’archéologie.

Place de la Mairie opens up the Bajén-Véga museum. Of this old house where took down the bishop Lord of the place, in the second half of the XVIIIth century, painter Francisco Bajén made grant in the township.
To load for her to arrange it to expose the paintings of Martine Véga, his wife, there essentially. After the acquirement of the neighboring house, the museum occupies all the southeasterly angle of the place of the Town hall.

It will also shelter, in the wing bordering the Rue Jean Jaurès — former street of Groc —, a room reserved to archeology.