Dispatches From France: Street Fine Art Inwards The South

Contributor post past times Deborah Beau of Kickcan & Conkers

Bonjour tout le monde ! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 short, hopefully inspirational, post today to give y'all an regard of the local atmosphere hither inward the South of France.

Schools get got alone only broken upwards for summertime opor-garai but the partying is already good underway!

We alive on the border of the Camargue inward an surface area known every bit La Vaunage. Life is ho-hum here, but in i lawsuit a year, occasionally twice (for les vendanges / grape-picking), the traditional fête votive (village festivities) takes place, in addition to fifty-fifty the sleepiest of hamlets comes to life.

If you've e'er read my weblog or been to the Camargue surface area on holiday, y'all volition know that this is bull-breeding country, that's bull amongst a uppercase B; bull ranches, horses in addition to herdsmen are role of the landscape, along amongst the flamingoes that alive temporarily inward the tabular array salt marshes past times the sea.

I can't state that I get got fully embraced the local Camarguaise civilization yet, but I create appreciate the street fine art at this fourth dimension of the year.

Most of the villages are decorated amongst colourful street banners that get got either been handpainted past times schoolhouse children or local artists. These few pictures were taken inward Aigues-Vives, for example.

Les Empègues (stencils) are roughly other type of street fine art specific to the region. The initiatory of all stencils appeared at the initiatory of all of the 20th Century in addition to were painted on the houses of immature men who were erstwhile plenty to create their armed services service. Although this is no longer compulsary inward France, each trouble solid gets a novel stencil during the annual hamlet festivities, celebrating youth (V. L. J. - Vive La Jeunesse / Long Live The Youth!) in addition to local Camargue culture.

Inspired past times the Mediterranean sun, the local festivities in addition to all this street art, I'll hold out taking my children to come across a duet of topical Picasso exhibitions inward Nîmes this Summer including "Picasso, sous le soleil de Françoise, Nîmes et les toros".