| (...) there are, in everything, general currents which draw the men of a generation. It is one of these currents which pushes painters towards expressions which, in order to manifest themselves, seek the soft severity of the serious hues in which some are at ease. But, in this apparently narrow domain, what diversity! From small tables drawn with application as if to unite the master of Ville-d'Avray, who are from Mr. Barth, to the broad and bitter southern aspects in which the vision of Mr. Chabaud is affirmed, what route can we Browse! Where does the kinship between the classic landscapes in their truth brought by Mr. Girieud and this melancholic evocation of a Street in Pantin where Mr. Quizet - who already has followers - retrace the poetry of the poor and popular streets? (...) |