Reading and music "Propos sur la peinture du moine Citrouille-Amère" (Comments on the painting of the Bitter Pumpkin Monk)  to La Garde-Freinet (Var, France)

"The Bitter-Pumpkin Monk's Talks on Painting" is Shitao's treatise on fundamental questions concerning painting and art in general, and creation in relation to nature.

It presents the original meditation of a genius painter who, based on a lifetime of experience, asks himself the fundamental questions: why paint? How to paint? Shitao bases his thinking outside time, beyond works and schools; he is concerned neither with painters nor paintings, but with the Painter and Painting, or more precisely, the Act of Painting.