Honore daumier

Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a pear to criticize the corrupt and repressive policies of King Louis-Philippe. Patricia Mainardi investigates the history of this early 19th-century meme.

Daumier spent most of his life drawing for the wide audience reached by France's popular press. But when he was temporarily let go from the magazine "Le Charivari" in 1860, he began to produce highly finished watercolors designed particularly for collectors

Honoré Daumier, prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor renowned for his cartoons satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.

In an afterword to The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), I wrote about Jeffrey Masson’s lawsuit, taking a very high tone. I put myself above the fray; I looked at things from a glacial distance. My aim wasn’t to persuade anyone of my innocence. It was to show off what a good writer I was. Reading the piece now, I am full of admiration for its irony and detachment—and appalled by the stupidity of the approach.

252 Color Paintings of Honoré Daumier - French Printmaker, Caricaturist, Painter and Sculptor (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) - Kindle edition by Michalak, Jacek, Daumier, Honoré. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading 252 Color Paintings of Honoré Daumier - French Printmaker, Caricaturist, Painter and Sculptor (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879).

Rejecting the idealized classicism of academic art and the exotic themes of Romanticism, Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world.

The witty caricatures of Honoré Daumier made him one of the most widely recognized social and political commentators of his day.