3810) Street Art, France: La Poste France (French Post) has issued a postage Stamp of 2.78 Euro featuring Street Art acrobats: Date/Year of Stamp issue: 10.03.2025:
About Street Arts Acrobats:
With the human springboard, seesaws, trampolines and swings, the acrobat escapes weightlessness.
The contortionist folds himself into his box or wraps himself around a rope in reptilian postures. Disjointed and dislocated, he defies the laws of flexibility to achieve a supernatural expression.
The tightrope walker brushes with death and magnifies his art in urban settings, the towers of Notre-Dame de Paris or the World Trade Center. Suspended between heaven and earth, he walks on the clouds.
The hand-to-hands combines the strength of the carrier and the elegance of the carried. Crocodile board, Mexican balance, angel on the back, banquine… Poetry of words, mastery of gesture. The acrobat becomes a living work of art.
Today, the acrobat transcribes urban life, its frenetic rhythms and its imbalances. At the edge of dance, theater and gymnasium, he amazes, in the street, a place of exchange, an audience up close, and translates the antinomies of the century.
The Italian acrobat Arcangelo Tuccaro, saltarin of King Charles IX in 1570 and author of the first work theorising acrobatic art, published in 1599, concludes: "because to say well, to jump, are the deeds of an archangel". One could not conquer his letters of nobility more elegantly.
Links:
1) For more on the Olympics and Paralympics held in the past, including the origins and history of the Olympics and Commemorative coins issued both on London Olympics and Paralympics please read my post on the London Olympics 2012 link as follows: History of the ancient & modern Olympics and Paralympics & commemorative coins issued during the London Olympics and Paralympics
4) For Rio 2016, please click on the following link to get interesting insights into the mascots of the Rio Olympics Vinicius and Tom, the Games and the Commemorative Coins and stamps issue programme: 1)The 31st Summer Olympics "Rio 2016"2) Commemorative Stamps and booklets issued by the Department of Posts, India on 05.08.2016
5) For Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity, please click on the following link: Ancient Olympic Games on Greek Coins of Antiquity
6) For a set of Post cards titled "Olympic Events" : please click on the following link: "Olympic Events": A set of 12 Post Cards issued by the Karnataka Postal Circle, India Post on 11.07.2016
7) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "Spirit of Olympics, Athens, Atlanta" please visit the following link: Spirit of the Olympic Games, Athens-Atlanta: Celebrating the Centenary of the Modern Olympic Games
8) For a presentation set of four stamps titled "XXVIII Olympic Games" (2004 Summer Olympics Athens, Greece, please visit the following link: XVIII Summer Olympic Games, Athens Greece (2004)
9) For a presentation set of two stamps titled "XXIX Olympic Games" (2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing, China, please visit the following link: XXIX Olympic Games Beijing, China: 08.08.08- 24.08.08: A Presentation set of four stamps issued by India Post on 08.08.08
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