As regular TravelGumbo readers know, we’re very much into ‘street art’ in its many forms—murals, sculpture, graffiti and more—all the formal and informal ways artists engage with the public out in the open.
Now, the street art of a particular era is going indoors, with Art in the Street, a major exhibition of late 19th century posters—commercial, political and artistic—at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
The late 19th century saw an explosion of posters as an art form and information source. Posters pushed political ideas such as universal suffrage, boosted the careers of cabaret artists, gave a new canvas to artists and—like the one above—advertised the work of companies that, wait for it, printed posters.
Among the best-known artists represented in the show are Theodore Steinlen, whose ‘The Street’ is above, Alphonse Mucha, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. The exhibit opens March 18th and runs through July 6th.
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