Travel is the favorite subject of freedom-loving enthusiasts.
“Travelling artists, the call of the distant, 1880-1944”
, the exhibition of the moment in Evian, is on view until May 21 at the Palais Lumière, produced in collaboration with the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.
Here are 200 photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures and posters by 40 artists, from the Belle Époque to the Second World War.
From the 1920s, the territories of "the greatest France" invited them to travel, from equatorial Africa to Madagascar, Indochina, Tibet, India and China.
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The scenography presents their portraits on giant canvases.
Which gives intensity to the reading of their art and their character.
They are curious, rebellious, scouts.
The incarnation of the “new woman”, actor of her destiny, with a fierce desire to reveal a world she crosses;
avant-gardists opening our eyes, even today.
Amazing…
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