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...Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre, it had been a most unpleasant year. Week after week the press would speak accusingly of the Louvre's "attics," its "cellars" and its "obscure prisons." In these sealed-off rooms, charged the critics, hundreds of masterpieces had lain "buried" to Frenchmen for years. Bazin protested that no museum has room enough to exhibit all its treasures, but there was no silencing the critics. Cried the indignant weekly Arts magazine: "We want to know our national patrimony...
...rooms at the Louvre will be opened up, after having been closed for 15 years for lack of funds Exulted France-Soir last week: "Ther is no more mystery at the Louvre. The Louvre is in the process of becoming a living museum." Sighed a relieved Curator Bazin: "The future beams more serene...
...Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre: "Our age is in the act of destroying its artistic patrimony. Modern restorers of the Anglo-Saxon school are inspired by the taste for modern painting. They want old masters to shine like contemporary art, which stresses contrasting tones. Old painting was concerned with harmonies, and the passage of one tone into another through half tones. When
Footlights & Picnics. Within the impressionists' circle, Manet and Monet together set off what Curator Bazin calls the "Cycle of Picnics," notes: "No school of painting has ever taken so much trouble to describe the life of its contemporaries, to show them their own pleasures, to help them forget their sorrows. No school of painting was ever so optimistic...
...triumph in bringing the ever-increasing harvest of impressionists together, Curator Bazin, with French pride, adds this footnote: "Those who deny that the French possess a sense of civic responsibility are advised to visit the Jeu de Paume. The impressionist gallery at the Louvre is not the accomplishment of the French government but of the people of France...