The Humanistic and Impressionism Institute
The Institute coming to life in 2005 as a private, independent and non-political organization was deeply rooted in the island facing the house and workshop of Georgette Agutte and Marcel Sembat, with determined impulse and will-power ; developing values of the past in order to built the future.

In the place where Claude MONET performed his known artwork "on the banks of the Seine" (Chicago Art Institute) where his first wife Camille is watching the houses of Bennecourt.

Without nostalgia, wishing to connect interests around Art, Culture and Humanism, all the while respecting Nature and beyond all cleavage of social structures.

The Financial resources
The whole of the ASIHI activity is to this day fully based upon the contribution of patrons and private individuals, the support of the AIAS and the benefits of organized activities.
No public financial contribution has been asked for or obtained to this day. The contributions received by the ASIHI may benefit of tax-freedom in France, within the limits of the enforced regulations regarding cultural patronage (Act nb 2003-709,1st August 2003 regarding cultural patronage and foundations (Journal Officiel nb 177, 2nd August 2003, page 13277, text nb 6) and updating of texts .)

The image : A trade mark, registered at the INPI identifies the ASIHI, the Agutte-Sembat House, the AIAS and various activities. Unauthorized use of the trade mark or fraudulous imitation is liable to persecution.

The values:
“Culture brings out in us what is best.”
“Culture is not inherited but conquered”
André MALRAUX

“Culture is no luxury : it is a basic necessity”
Gao XINGIJAN (Nobel Prize of Literature 2000)

“Your power is strong enough and the artist frustrated enough, should you pass by the painting without stopping. The power that you have to refuse him attention is so great and so impressive that I dare beg you use it moderately and to think twice before using it. “
Marcel SEMBAT( A preface to the catalogue of the 11th Autumn Exhibition 1913, page 49)

“The mental culture uplifts the heart”
“Universal tolerance is the greatest law”
VOLTAIRE- anagram of François-Marie AROVET Le Jeune (Philosophical dictionary).

The persons :

President of the ASIHI : Françoise CELDRAN Director of the ASIHI and President of the AIAS : Ramon-R. VIDAL  Y  PLANA