| At the Berthe Weill gallery, the painter Girieud has just made a very interesting exhibition of paintings of which almost all the motifs are from Provençal sites. Girieud is one of the main exhibitors at the Salon des Indépendants. His manner evolved, from a sort of partitioning that recalled the heroic times of Emile Bernard and Sérusier, towards a search for shape by color where the influence of Cézanne is significant. His rather austere art, very disdainful of small seductive means, offers a beautiful, long-developed material that serves as an expression of a very deep feeling of nature and southern soil. He knows how to see the grandeur, always a little Roman, of rocks, olive trees, plains with long stony expanses. Admittedly, he does not imitate the admirable and unrecognized Guigou, but he has such a deep love for the Rhône Valley. And this love is necessarily expressed with similar accents. With Lombard and Chabaud, Girieud must be considered the most sincere of our Mediterranean artists. |