Augustin Rouart: Between father and son.

A strange bond united the painter Augustin Rouart and his son Jean-Marie. The writer recounts how this relationship experienced all the phases of filial affection, from love to the turbulence of adolescence, to find a definitive harmony in art. Jean-Marie was first the model child whose portrait the painter never tired of painting. And the one who, romantically entrusted to adoptive parents in Noirmoutier, received illustrated letters in which his father told him about his life in drawings like a comic strip.
Having joined the world of words and the novel, the writer questions the secret links that unite painting and literature. How can they enrich each other? How has painting influenced his vision of things? In this richly illustrated work, it is his turn to paint the portrait of Augustin, less the man with a shady character than the luminous artist happy in his art. Without hiding the frustrations he experienced, he welcomes this reunion in the only world where the mediocrities of reality are abolished and where the brush and words come together in mysterious correspondences.