You want to travel.
By Marine Caillault on May 12, 2009
PARIS (Herald de Paris) - You want to forget the boring day-to-day life. Well, we have just what you need to do that without throwing away your social, professional and family lives. It’s an exhibition about Carnets de Voyage.
French people have always loved to paint the sceneries they saw and write about them. As they added portraits of the unnamed people they met through their journeys, they invented the Carnets de Voyage. This literary and pictorial genre is all about sharing the amazing meetings one has during a journey far from home: Titouan Lamazou, Yvon Le Corre, or Christian de Boisredon… All of them have this fascination for the world which they transmit through paintings and descriptions.
The Musée de la Poste of Paris just began hosting an exhibition showing many, many different Carnets de Voyage. A series of galleries show, spread throughout the museum’s corridors, bits and pieces of different authors. Historical artists are covered: Amandus Roesler’s 1858-1862 journal is shown as a landmark of those Carnets de Voyage, which ancestors are the navigators’ journals.
For those who like the clever exhibitions, there are complete and poetical explanations. And if you just want to enjoy sketches like you would visit a painting exhibition, the images are self-sufficient.
The interest of this exhibition is that young sketchers have just as much room as the famous ones. Here, the visitor is led to travel wherever he wants, regardless of the popularity of the artist. The only problem: you may spend plane ticket money because of this exhibition.
L’Art du Carnet de Voyage, de 1800 à nos jours
April 20th – September 12th
Musée de la Poste
34, bvd Vaugirard, Paris 15°
www.museedelaposte.fr
Amazing art work, Paris is one place about art be at fashion, paintings, historical monuments…