| (...) A balance is established. Besides those that I have been able to quote, let us think of artists like the powerful Luc-Albert Moreau, like the great Dunoyer de Segonzac, powerful all the same and even fiery, but delicate in the very thickness and and the abundance of its paste , with its fine and finely tuned nuances, on the other hand an extraordinary designer, one of the simplest and most expressive that there is, like the solid and pleasant Jean Marchand, like Gromaire, like the classic Favory, modern disciple of Rubens, like Girieud, another "classic of today (see his great and noble composition in the Independants), like Galanis, like the fine and aristocratic Laboureur, master in engraving, like the strong and harmonious Yves Alix, who begins to walk, with his young ardor, on a glorious path, others still, - time will sort out - that reassures us and lets us easily hope that our time will not give way to the times that have just passed. (...) |