"After prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon you ask yourself: This whirl-pool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still cra-zier drawing and composition-whither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central current to be detected? Is it young genius in the raw, awaiting the sunshine of success to ripen its somewhat terrifying gifts? Or is the exhibition a huge, mystifying blague? What, you ask, as you apply wet compresses to your weary eyeballs, blistered by dangerous proximity to so many blazing canvases, does the Autumn Salon mean to French art?"
"After prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon you ask yourself: This whirl-pool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still cra-zier drawing and composition-whither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central current to be detected? Is it young genius in the raw, awaiting the sunshine of success to ripen its somewhat terrifying gifts? Or is the exhibition a huge, mystifying blague? What, you ask, as you apply wet compresses to your weary eyeballs, blistered by dangerous proximity to so many blazing canvases, does the Autumn Salon mean to French art?"
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