Frescoes of Bel Air district

Frescoes of Bel-Air district

Following the idea of the City of Chartres and « Chartres habitat » (public housing office), the cooperative society of muralists « Cité Création » was commissionned to paint four gigantic fescoes in the Bel Air district.

A group composed of a project manager, an artistic director, and three designers and six muralist painters, was involved in this project:  three months has been necessary to design this frescoes and nine for the achievement.

Four buildings, that is to say a surface are of 4000m², have seen their grayish walls disappeared to leave the place to colored ones. Now there are shimmering colors under the form of diverse trompe-l’oeil. The great subject have been chosen by the tenants: the first one is inspired from the downtown architecture, with the timbered houses, the second one covers the theme of the Beauce identity with a big scene representing the mower of the wheat, a third one reveals the edge of the Eure, the last one refers to the Cosmetic Valley thanks to the theme of the perfume. At the end, sixteen panels are visible in the quarter, on which curious people can also seen many details and the representation of the regulars of the quarter.

The place is now sparkling with colors in the form of various “trompe-l’oeil”

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