Peintre de la Marine
Peintre Officiel de la Marine (POM ) is the name of an official marine painter of the French Navy with the rank of a naval officer. Since the July Revolution in 1830, this oldest artists' association of the Grande Nation exists. As the first artist Louis -Philippe Jean Antoine Théodore Gudin Crépin and were promoted to officers. The membership of the POMs is limited to 40 people. An official marine painter receives a penny fee, but the French government has adopted a decree the entire works of POM as a national cultural heritage.
The structure within the POMs is strictly hierarchical:
- Agréés ( Approved ) with the rank of Captain Lieutenant
- Titulaires ( lifelong incumbent ) in the rank of Lieutenant Commander
Who was admitted 12 years, is automatically ( as long as one is not delinquent or too eager signatures for peace movements makes ) a substitutes for the lifelong incumbents. Should you before reaching age 60, this process can be shortened.
At the present time new official marine painter are selected by a jury after a previous member has died. Every two years there is an exhibition Salon de la Marine, to which every Frenchman may submit a work to the reference to the sea. The jury is ever one third of POMs, high officers of the Navy and persons of public cultural life of France. Meanwhile, one accepts as well as paintings drawings, graphics and photos. Works of art that are the size exceed 130 times 97 cm is not accepted, just as works of video and performance artists. The jury rejected according to their own unwritten rules from abstract images, and expected on the submitted themes and motifs that can recognize a reference to the sea without much effort. The jury invites according to these specifications for a vernissage and represents approximately 100 to 120 artists. The last, the 40th Salon de la Marine was held until January 21, 2008 in Paris on 7 December 2007. This exhibition is the only exhibition in France which hosts the State. At the end of the salon, the jury will award medals and honors a new POM if a place is to forgive. 1995, the jury for the first time a woman, Christiane Rosset, for Peintre Officiel de la Marine.
The POMs by tailored navy uniforms, who have to pay Herself ( blue for the northern hemisphere, white for the southern hemisphere ). The uniform is worn without sleeves stripes with epaulettes. On the right breast depicts a self-designed silver anchor as a badge of the official marine painter. In case of illness, the POMs as all naval officers may be treated free of charge at the Paris military hospital Val -de- Grâce.
Thus the Peintres officiels de la Marine also have the right impression from service in the Navy, the Naval Command sent twice annually a catalog of over 60 ship movements to the official marine painter. You can then search for a sea voyage around the world to close up to pursue the life on board and put them into images.
Since 2003, in the French Navy an offshoot of the POMs, the 20 official Navy writer Écrivains de Marine.
Members of Peintres officiels de la Marine ( ordered by the date of appointment )
21st Century
- 2010: Marie - Détrée Hourrière, Guy L' Hostis, Jacques Rohaut,
- 2008: Jean Gaumy, Nicolas Vial
- 2005: Yann Arthus- Bertrand, Éric Bari, Jean Lemonnier, Anne Smith, Dirk Verdoorn,
- 2003: Michèle Battut, Michel Bellion, Titouan Lamazou, Christian Le Corre, Richard Texier, Jean -Marie Zacchi,
- 2001: Patrick Camus, John Pendray, Ronan Olier,