| Mr. Girieud is making amazing progress. From his Tentation of Saint Anthony of the Independents of 1904 to his Nudes of today, through his studies of decorative flowers of the last Salon d'Autumne, he has not ceased to produce works in which rare gifts of lyricism are asserted in our current painters - who so often prefer photographic enlargement to the concepts of imagination, Girieud is one of the designers of tomorrow. Let it be given a vast wall surface to cover, stained glass to compose and you will see this painter of peonies, irises and hydrangeas follow the traditions of our frescoes.
I think he's gone these days for Siena. May Italian art exert on these two temperaments an influence as beneficent as a Maurice Denis, for example, has been able to benefit. Roman discipline is only effective for those who go there sure to remain themselves. |