International audienceA geomorphosite is supposed to have a scientific value and an aesthetical interest. This paper deals with contemporary criteria for assessing the aesthetical value of such a site and discusses it using local coastal examples in Brittany, western France. During the XIX and the XX centuries many famous painters (among them Courbet, Monet, Gauguin...) painted coastal landscapes and set a new aesthetical frame for them. This paper asks whether contemporary art might incite geomorphologists to consider other aesthetical frames of landscape beauty. For this we have studied the collection of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain en Bretagne and we have selected works which deal with coastal landscape. They “document” the site...