Le Figaro Nantes

Blaise Cendrars depicts the sea voyage as “ a meditation, a state “. From 1911 onwards, the writer repeatedly embarked on a cosmopolitan chase between the Old and New Worlds. the New Worldalongside Man Ray and Picabia, Dali and Hemingway, Joséphine Baker and Raoul Dufy… This encounter between the artistic effervescence of the interwar years and the golden age of the great ocean liners forms the exciting whirlwind of the exhibition. at the Musée d’art de Nantes. Conceived in collaboration with the Musée d’art moderne du Havre, the exhibition highlights twenty years of transatlantic aesthetics, the marriage of the avant-garde and oceanic travel, by dissecting the transformation of the imaginary that crystallized in painting, photography, literature and poster art.

Numerous loans from the Écomusée de Saint-Nazaire enrich this pictorial feast. Gelatin-silver prints show…