Dispatches From France: Street Fine Art Inwards The South

Contributor ship service yesteryear Deborah Beau of Kickcan & Conkers

Bonjour tout le monde ! H5N1 short, hopefully inspirational, ship service today to give you lot an reckon of the local atmosphere hither inwards the South of France.

Schools lead maintain solely but broken upward for summertime opor-garai but the partying is already good underway!

We alive on the border of the Camargue inwards an expanse known every bit La Vaunage. Life is irksome here, but ane time 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 always read my weblog or been to the Camargue expanse on holiday, you lot volition know that this is bull-breeding country, that's bull amongst a working capital missive of the alphabet B; bull ranches, horses in addition to herdsmen are business office of the landscape, along amongst the flamingoes that alive temporarily inwards the tabular array salt marshes yesteryear the sea.

I can't tell that I lead maintain fully embraced the local Camarguaise civilisation 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 lead maintain either been handpainted yesteryear schoolhouse children or local artists. These few pictures were taken inwards Aigues-Vives, for example.

Les Empègues (stencils) are about other type of street fine art specific to the region. The initiatory off stencils appeared at the initiatory off of the 20th Century in addition to were painted on the houses of immature men who were one-time plenty to create their armed services service. Although this is no longer compulsary inwards France, each describe 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 yesteryear the Mediterranean sun, the local festivities in addition to all this street art, I'll move taking my children to come across a dyad of topical Picasso exhibitions inwards Nîmes this Summer including "Picasso, sous le soleil de Françoise, Nîmes et les toros".