| Girieud presented to us some mythological or biblical scenes, in which he tends to the style, remembering Puvis, The Three Graces, Sappho, Apollo inspirer, Suzanne bath, Adam and Eve, the style, he does not look for it in the ennobling of forms, but in the simplicity of the attitudes and the calm of the rhythm. The characters appear to her in an impassive majesty, in a fixed attitude, which has the pretension to be definitive, stopped, ritual, to reach the general, to exclude life, which is the particular. The faces are meditative, a meditation concentrated not on the occasional, but on the essence of things. This is not free from coldness and awkwardness. |