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...forms until they are already outmoded-or else employing them artificially, in ... borrowings that lack any spontaneous spark of life. For more than a century, imagination-the true innovator of all new forms-has remained completely outside of, and alien to, the Church . . . The only great Christian artist alive, Rouault, had to wait until he reached the age of eighty before seeing one of his works admitted to a church...
Died. Andre Derain, 74, one of the leading French painters of the 20th century; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Garches, France. A member, with Rouault and Matisse, of the uninhibited Fauvist movement in Paris at the turn of the century, tall, simplicity-loving Artist Derain ("The great danger for art lies in an excess of culture") later dabbled with cubism, finally turned to a personalized style of calm, uncluttered elegance that put him among the world's most respected painters...
France featured a group show of such grand old men as Rouault, Matisse and Derain, together with a raggle-taggle of young abstractionists clearly unfit to maintain the greatness of the School of Paris...
There, four old men-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Rouault-uphold standards they set early in the century. In the U.S., a handful of comparatively young men are setting new standards very different from those of Paris...
André Girard studied with two French masters, Georges Rouault and Pierre Bonnard, and his glowing darks and sparkling lights show the influence of both. Girard, who has experimented with many new techniques of stained-glass design, melted bits of colored glass onto clear panes in making his Sermon from the Boat. Rich in color and texture, the finished window seems to radiate devotion...