Show WAR SHORN OF ITS modern painters who themselves The mcelvea have looked on death depict slaughter as it really Is for the first time in history war Is painted as it Is the varnish the glory has been taken off it stands out in all its sodden horror the opening of the salon des artistes artists Arti stes francaes Fran cals filled for tho the most part with canvases of men who have been in the trenches show an astonishing absence of battle scenes most ot of the painters have sought inspiration elsewhere those who have found it in the war have rendered only the dull misery ot of life at the front they show no clash ot of aral armies ea these painters who have been through the war no flourish of trumpets not even fragments ot of general fights but war as it Is A soldier limping toward the lines exhausted despairing holding up to his mouth a handkerchief dark as aa a clot of blood Is what one sees the face Is distorted with suffering and the uniform Is of 0 that indescribable color which comes only from continual exposure to the elements garry paints a blinded soldier guided towards a relief station michel and gues show water flooded trenches if governments in the future wish more pleasant and cheerful war scones scenes they will have to call on artists who stayed away from the front those who served were too close to death to paint anything but the truth |