Exhibition Aimé Césaire Lam Picasso

Mrs Sidon, one of our teachers of Spanish with two students.

She initiated the project to visit the Clément Foundation. 

 Marie-Louise, Doriane, Aurélie and Camille
 from 1ères stmg

        It was a wonderful, an amazing exhibition. We learnt a lot of things: for example the cover of ''Corps Perdu'' represents Aimé Césaire's younger son drawn Picasso.

''Corps Perdu'' is a book about Césaire's poems illustrated by Pablo  Picasso.

We discovered  the tempera technique in art. We learnt about history and that Wifredo Lam had a Chinese father.

This exhibition deals with two movements : Cubism and Surrealism.

We watched a film , a documentary about the meeting of Césaire , Lam and Picasso.

Wifredo Lam was a Cuban painter whose most famous painting, "the Jungle" is exhibited in MoMa, New York.

André Breton, a famous French surrealist poet, met Césaire too in Martinique, when he was looking for a ribbon for his daughter. He went to a haberdashery in Fort-de-France during the second world war and he found a copy of the review "Tropiques" which contained Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a return to the Native Land.

                                                                                                                                                                                    1 STMG2

         This exhibition is a chance for Martinique because it is the first time such expensive paintings have been lent to our island. It was an opportunity for us to extend our general and artistic knowledge. For example, we understand why the exhibition is called "Nous nous sommes trouvés", it means that Picasso, Lam and Césaire really met during the war, when they were fleeing nazism, rascism and censorship. They left Marseille in France for Fort-de-France on a ship called Captain Paul Lemerle in 1941; this ship was reserved for 352 intellectuals.

                            

If you want to read more about this story you can go here
                                                                                                            Cécile G., Naélie M., 1L LVA

                    The place is huge.

 

We had workshops in the gardens with the museum guides.