| The Course of Trades at the Decorative Art Exhibition has not had good press, as for the way in which it was decorated. The unanimous opinion is that at the very least we could have done better and here is a brochure by Mr. Gabriel Mourey comes to bring the above details by showing what this Court of Trades should have been, failed to be before to become what it is. The decorations of the three walls included nine fresco paintings of which here are the subjects and the authors.
On the center wall: the Arts of life by Girieud; the Arts of death by Dufrénoy; Religious Arts by Alfred Lombard.
Right: Les Arts de la Pierre, by Pierre Girieud; Wood Arts by Louis Riou; Metal Arts by Alfred Lombard. Left: Les Arts de la parure by André Dufrénoy; rustic arts by Marcel Rodre; the Arts of fire by Pierre Faray.
It is quite certain that this is an overall plan of a very high conception and the names of the artists chosen for the execution, the models which they had established with great enthusiasm show what they could have done. (...)
Lyricism was not admitted. The project was condemned because it was not modern enough. (...) |