| (...) It has been said that Girieud's painting was laborious. Certainly it is his pride and I understand it. Girieud is a Mediterranean. There is in his works, sometimes a little awkwardness of these artists of ancient Provence, when they tried, in these Gallo-Roman marbles found in the ground, between Arles and Avignon, to find the Roman majesty . It could be a thunderous, paint with saffron and shine, garlic, his paint. No, he took to the Provencal soil his faculty of passionate and taciturn respect. It is a noble artist that Girieud. He rose to an austere beauty and he put his glory to take the hardest and longest path (....) |