QUAT Z ARTS - ART CELEBRATION AT THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS (1892-1966)

From 1892 to 1966, the annual Quat'Z'Arts parade was an anticipated tradition of Parisian landscape. An event all the more legendary as the public is not admitted inside the ball that follows. An artistic-erotic emanation and humorous work by students of the School of Fine Arts giving birth to munificent decorations, the construction of the tanks of the different workshops, the making costumes and accessories, designing posters and cardboards invitations, some of which are signed by famous artists or those about to become famous. the future: Mucha, Jules Chéret, Yves Brayer, … The Quat'Z'Arts reflect the culture of teachers and students through revisited historical themes : The Battle of Pharsalia, Salammbô, The Delights of Capua, The Triumphal Entry from Ramses II to Thebes… The collective imagination has retained the image of beauties naked carried on the shoulders, but more than a libertine celebration of youth or a modern Saturnalia, the Quat'Z'Arts are the fruit of an academic ideal aiming to achieve the union of the arts under the leadership of architecture.