PAUL DE GOBERT - LA GRANDE TAUPE ET LE PETIT PEINTRE

SOME CULTURE...

Wall composition in acrylics

With this mural, De Gobert wanted to show that urban growth pushes nature further and further away. He painted what we could have seen around the station before the urbanisation of the area: softly undulating landscapes and wide plains, represented in the spring, summer, autumn and winter. He created a wonderfully beautiful, perfectly pure nature, separated from the underground world with a mosaic strip in yellow, ochre and brown which symbolises the underground geological layers.The scene is very detailed, for example with an easily recognisable kingfisher, robin, or wren. We can also see clouds of all sorts of shapes and colours. Overall, the mural is dominated by green and blue tints, which gives a calm atmosphere to the station.