Subject: Re: The Real Daumier
Smmrs@aol.com
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 16:49:35 EST
INteresting post, thanks! Any thoughts on the Yoshoto moanings?
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n a message dated Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:05:05 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Paul Miller" <phm@midsouth.rr.com> writes:
> Here is a link to many Daumier, (the real one), prints, mostly satire. Also
> a little info on the man himself to see if any light is shed since Salinger
> had the main character in "Blue period" choose Daumier's name for himself.
> http://grizzly.umt.edu/partv/famus/print/daumier/daumier.htm#30
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> DAUMIER, Honoré
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> (1808-79). The caricaturist, painter, and sculptor Honoré Daumier is best
> known for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics
> and society. Also important were his paintings that helped introduce
> techniques of impressionism into modern art. The paintings were hardly
> known, however, during his lifetime.
> Daumier was born in Marseilles, France, on Feb. 20 or 26, 1808. His parents
> were artists but were not successful. Daumier received a typical lower
> middle-class education, but his studies did not interest him. He wanted to
> draw. His family therefore arranged for him to study with Alexandre Lenoir,
> a fairly well-known artist who had studied with Jacques-Louis David, a
> leading classicist painter.
>
> At age 13 Daumier became a bailiff's messenger in the law courts. He then
> worked as a bookstore clerk at the Palais-Royal, one of the busiest spots in
> Paris. There Daumier saw picturesque personalities--men and women of
> fashion, intellectuals, artists, and swindlers--who lent themselves to
> caricature.
>
> At age 18 or 20, Daumier decided to embark on the artistic career he longed
> for. He soon found he could not make a living from painting or sculpting
> what he pleased and therefore accepted commissions for portraits and
> cartoons of morals and manners. From 1830 to 1847, Daumier was a
> lithographer, cartoonist, and sculptor.
>
> In his cartoons Daumier created unforgettable characters He used these
> colorful characters when he attacked a regime, form of society, or concept
> of life that he scorned.
>
> His types were universal: businessmen, lawyers, physicians, professors, and
> petits bourgeois. After two uncomplimentary caricatures of King
> Louis-Philippe in 1832, Daumier was thrown into prison for six months.
>
> In 1848 Daumier discovered impressionism, a form of art in which faces and
> bodies tend to be devoured by the surrounding light and become one with the
> atmosphere. From lack of demand, Daumier's impressionist lithographs are not
> very numerous, but these and his paintings, also few in number, show that he
> had been converted to impressionism.
>
> As a cartoonist, Daumier enjoyed a wide reputation, though as a painter he
> remained unknown. He died in Valmondois on Feb. 11, 1879, having produced
> 4,000 lithographs and an equal number of drawings.
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> Anyone done anymore digging into the Rilke/Rodin/DDSBP connection?
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> Paul
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