Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Poetry!


Here is a nice change from the usual graffiti... Even if technically it's not very different! Only this time it's legal and qualifies as "work of art". "It" is Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat), a famous poem by French poet Arthur Rimbaud that all French pupils have learned at school (at least partially). Thanks to the Dutch Tegen-Beeld foundation who committed calligrapher Jan Willem Bruins to write it on a wall, well you can now admire it on 300 sq meters (3229 square feet) at rue Férou (right next to the Pantheon Saint Sulpice) Dankü!


8 comments:

  1. technical and very clean graffiti..and a work of art?? like the yellow with black stripe scarf on the floor..lol..merci for the info..

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  2. Rue Ferou à côté de Pantheon? Ah, peut-etre, mai certainement à côté de Place Saint-Sulpice. Mai c'est ne pas grave, this work is a welcome addition to that blank, boring street between a wonderful church and a wonderful museum. I look forward to seeing it. Love it.

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  3. And remember that you took a photo of a very nice lady near there. She joined us at two picnics. Remember?

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  4. Suddenly I understand why there is a restaurant in Berkeley, California, named Le Bateau Ivre! Because, you know, we are very hip here across the Bay from San Francisco.

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  5. Yes you are, Sasho. When I first studied this poem, I thought it sounded like the work of a young person—then I found out Rimbaud was only 16 when he wrote it! Love your pictures of a really good grafitto—I mean, work of art.

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  6. The writing is nicely done, and the photo, too. And I agree that Berkeley is hip, or it was, last time I was there.

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  7. @Jeff. You're so right. Why on earth did I think of the Pantheon, whereas I wanted to say Saint Sulpice?! Sigmund would proabably have a lot to say about that!

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  8. It truly is a work of art. I wouldn't mind walking past it every morning on my way to work.

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