| The Sélection gallery brought together two painters who, at the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and then in 1906, were presented in the company of Matisse and others under the common name of Incohérents.
It is a term that may surprise today's laymen because violently contrasting tones have become commonplace.
The current aesthetic is not shocked by the pen drawings enhanced with colors of Manguin which are the expression of a very simple poetry, very close to us, but of a high flight. It is the same inspiration that we find in its flowers and still lifes in a vibrant tone.
Girieud, too, is a Mediterranean. His stay in Greece had a profound influence on him, and it was through ancient art that he saw and painted all of his landscapes. They gain in balance and above all in harmony which distance his compositions from too much realism. Finally, note that his mythological illustrations which are like engravings of a Greek temple. |