Zigouigouis, twists, daubs… It floats like a joyous perfume of freedom in the exhibition spaces of the National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
An amazing team (Francesca Alberti, director of the art history department at the Villa Medici, Diane Bodart, who teaches this subject at Columbia University in New York, Anne-Marie Garcia, in charge of the house collections, and Philippe-Alain Michaud, curator at the Center Pompidou) brought together in the vast nave of the Melpomène room, as well as upstairs, in the imposing Foch room, some 150 pieces, works or graphic documents from the Renaissance to the present day .
With photos and experimental films, they tell this universal impulse that is scribbling.
The one that spills carelessly into the margins of school notebooks (extraordinary, that of the young Delacroix, or the first "M. Patate" produced by the future Louis XIII at the age of 6), on notepads next to the phone, or what seems...
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