Art: Shouts

The first big group show of the Paris season was dominated by a single painting. Bernard Lorjou's huge (12 ft. by 18 ft.) Atomic Age made everything else at the Salon des Tuileries last week look either timid or oldfashioned; it was a direct challenge to the aging moderns who have so long shaped French art. By its size, its dull coloring and its air-war theme, the picture was clearly intended to invite comparison with Picasso's famous canvas of the Spanish civil war, Guernica. Lorjou is no admirer of his elder. "Picasso is called...

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