Impressions for Peace

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In 2024, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition. Impressionism was born in 1874, just like Gertrude Stein or Winston Churchill, and then ran through the 20th century, thanks to its works, survivors and conveyors of a message of peace and resilience. Normandie Impressionniste sets out to unite the creativity of children from Normandy and the USA by means of a symbolic landscape: a beach.

With the aid of partners in Normandy and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (the MET), we are providing kids from here and abroad with a shared canvas on which to draw a beach. Drawings from across the Atlantic and from all over Normandy will form an animated beach, an evolving impressionist landscape, in a fusion of creativity. Under the supervision of the visual artists Antoine+Manuel and with the collaboration of the composer and artist Felicia Atkinson for the soundtrack, these drawings will be compiled and merged by second-year students at Lanimea, Normandy’s school of animated graphic art, to send out a creative message of reconciliation during this twofold celebration of art and peace in 2024.

This project is being accompanied by educational teams under the guidance of Mélanie Van Hooren and Alix Fizet, professionals at Lanimea.

The Lanimea students:
▶︎ Mara Jeanne
▶︎ Gaëlle Le Collen
▶︎ Joris Magras
▶︎ Paul Vignon

To watch the movie, please click here.

▶︎ Practical information:

Lanimea is a school with a low intake with a view to better accompanying each student, while  taking into account each of their artistic personalities, to fit with the development of new techniques. The idea is to train for tomorrow’s animated digital image professions, based on a solid traditional apprenticeship.
https://lanimea.com/