| The homage to Gauguin of Mr. Pierre Girieud will do harm to the Oceanian painter, because nothing shows better than the imitator the defects of the model; and the childishness of this ignorant art, which graces itself in barbarism, makes us smile. It looks like one of the canvases used to decorate barracks with circus figures. When a painter revolts openly, doctrinally against the rules, it would be very useless to preach to them. At a certain degree of incoherence, the council makes ridiculous the one who gives it, as if to remind the proprieties of a sans-culotte. |