| Mr. Pierre Girieud comments on antiquity with that somewhat stony grace of stained glass painters recounting the Passion. It's mostly a decorator. Many of our modern painters, moreover, are mainly decorators. His colors are a little cold and a little raw, without a clever mixture, without subtle gradation. But perhaps Mr. Girieud wants it to be so. And it becomes difficult to make a judgment on the technique of an artist when he seems, as well as this one, conscious and master of his technique. We hardly know if it is him who is wrong or if it is us, who in the reprobate, make a mistake. Must wait. And, to give a definite opinion on the work of Mr. Girieud - who is, however, a tried-and-tested artist - I think it is necessary to have a final proof; because his work seems transitory, a search for a better than this painter will reach. The three Graces, Adam and Eve, landscape in Eguille are to quote. |