| (....) It is a great swirl of ideas which occurs then. Alongside the wild beasts and so different from them, asserts itself with equal audacity, in a different way, the art that earns us the clear and vibrant joy of paintings with delicate and attractive nuances, the paintings of Mme Marval and c 'is Charles Guérin with his figures modeled with a realism which distracts himself in fanciful scenes, it is Jules Flandrin, voluntary and methodical in his large landscapes as in his portraits; Girieud, fond of classicism. All started at the Independants as started with them or after them, Marie Valadon, Mlle Charmy, Georges Bouche, Louis Charlot, Mainssieux, Alfred Lombard or Maurice Asselin which continues among us a tradition of intimacy where the teachings of Chardin and those of Peronneau. (....) |