| A few years ago, Mr. Pierre Girieud described with loving fervor some aspects of the immortal Greece alive in the hearts of artists.
Unrepentant traveler, fresh from Spain, he is exhibiting today at the Galerie Druet some landscapes of this country of austere and serious beauty.
It is Granada and its ruddy towers rising above a belt of foliage, it is Segovia and its cathedral where the pinnacles at the bedside are a demonic crowd climbing the domes, it is Avila training pregnant on the wild and harsh rocks, it is the Sierra de Guadamara raising on the horizon its rough and bare peaks. Here and there, Girieud, without fever, in a precise language which he owes to his native province, traces images of evocative beauty.
Because the art of this Provençal is not lost in the mists. His ardent passion wants to embroider on a certain weft. Architecture remains its guide and lends to all things a solid framework.
In this set evocative of a land with chivalrous impulses, two sumptuous bouquets bring the gaiety of their colors, two tasty little nudes, of classic and sober construction, some vigorous portraits recall the various aspects of the research of Mr. Pierre Girieud who, at center of his exhibition, put two landscapes with bluish depths dedicated to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, this village which he has repeatedly celebrated and towards which he returns as to a protective haven to compare his impressions and assure his friends of continuity of an ideal whose nobility is not denied |