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Show HOW BATTLES ARE PAINTED Distinguished French Artist Follows Troops and Tries to Get Details on Canvas. France, in order to preserve the acts of heroism of her soldiers, has. sent many of her best artists to th front. Among them is Charles Foui queray, noted principally for his mai rine paintings. To an interviewer foi Cartoons Magazine M. Fouqueray explained ex-plained how he worked. "I keep," he said, "two -or thres miles in the rear, and when the fight: ing is over, I rush to the battlefiold, make quick sketches of various points before the bodies and the debris havs yet been removed; and the soldiers who have taken part In the battle explain ex-plain to me the positions and the vorj attitude of the fighters, ofteH even mimicking them before me, and point ing out on my sketch the changes ought to make." |