| .... Even more characteristic of the present conjunctures are the models of the decorations commissioned from a certain number of artists for public buildings in order to fight against unemployment. It is no less usual to mock official patrons.
In this case they acted with discernment.
Instead of asking everyone for their little
piece — which results in the extraordinary
cacophony of the Town Hall, and
even, it must be admitted, from the Théâtre du Palais de Chaillot, they went to a single master builder responsible for making his comrades work on his sketches.
We thus have the model of
Pierre Girieud for the town hall of Ivry, a high lesson in classicism, that of Yves Alix for the town hall of Saint-Mandé where this painter shows, with a light color, a smiling humor which suits him very well and which he has too many tendencies to retain, finally that of Desnoyer for the town hall of Cachan. Desnoyer, whose generosity always seems to find the canvas too narrow, is at ease
on the wall where abundant eon unfolds
imagining shapes. The cartel tells us the names of its collaborators: the site manager was Fougeron. Now this young man, of a very marked talent, yielded very well to the common discipline. Isn't that how painters were formed in the past? working for a boss?....
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