| Mr. Pierre Girieud — and I congratulate this young lyrical colorist for also being a vigorous and serious writer — expresses himself in these terms: "By dint of sincerity, and by the intensity of his emotion, Cézanne felt the beauty which emanates from the forms, and, without correcting them, without arranging them, according to the arbitrary and, moreover, admirable fancy of a Poussin, he expressed the tacit pride and the natural style of things.
He must remain isolated. His pupils could only make up for it by the vainest manual skill, a very personal vision which it is impossible to reduce to a formula. »
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“Abuse,” rightly remarks Mr.
Pierre Girieud - whom, by the processes of imitation, one made, in these last years, of the impressionist vision, determined a legitimate reaction, and which begins to take shape, in favor of the character and the style, too long forgotten . » ...
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