| It is a selection of works by young painters who are currently filling the walls of the gallery Barbazanges. Thirty paintings, watercolors or drawings to represent thirteen exhibitors, it is little by the number; but thanks to the choices made by Messrs. Joachim Gasquet and Louis Vauxcelles, it's a lot by the quality. (...) Mr. Girieud who, to accentuate the classical side of his conceptions places nudes or characters in the foreground of the Provencal countryside he likes to evoke. I was going to write that Mr. Girieud remains in the French tradition. Yes, no doubt, but tradition is not a repetition, it is a living thing that is created every day, which is transformed by the contribution of all great talents and, as such, painters like Dufy, Segonzac , Luc-Albert Moreau also follow the tradition and make the tradition. (....) |