| You can love a painter or not like his way. As long as he remains himself, even if he varies his technique, he passes through his work this communion of the artist and the work that warns us to pay attention. But when a composition, like a pupil's duty, is performed according to a statement, on an imposed genre, it is not always possible for us to find the artist in his borrowed clothes. The painter Girieud, whose museum of the Orangery exposes until Sunday the frescos destined for the University of Poitiers, certainly underwent this law of the command in front of which it is necessary to bow down. Submit or resign. I have hardly seen Girieud's manner in these academic panels where Lycurgus and the Spartan Oath, Homer among the Shepherds, Aesculapius at Epidaurus, Pythagoras and his school, claim to symbolize Law, Letters, Medicine and Science. Another panel is dedicated to the glory of the University of Poitiers. It may be the least conventional. As for those of glorious France and painful France, let us not say more. We must not chagrin anyone. In addition, eight nude women symbolize the pedagogical virtues. Greet the pedagogical virtues with respect. That's all we can give them. They are probably very boring these virtues. |