Word: daumier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment: Jack Levine's controversial Welcome Home, which shows a bloated, translucent, two-star general banqueting with his friends. "It looks," said General Eisenhower, "like a lampoon more than art, as far as I am concerned." Nobody interrupted to invoke the shades of Hogarth, Goya or Daumier, so Ike went on to say that in the future, "I think I might have something to say if we have another exhibition anywhere." Possibly, "there ought to be one or two people" on the Government's selection boards "that, like most of us here, say we are not too certain...
...their surprise, Orwell's sponsors of the Left Book Club discovered that they had not sent a tame canary down the mine to expire obligingly while testing the foul air; they had to deal with a cornered mine rat. Having sketched his Daumier-like cartoon of misery, George Orwell turned with ruthless, cold caricature on the socialists themselves, who thought they had the answer to the inhuman conditions he had described...
Huxley's Horrors. Each took his time and made a horror comic of it. The characters are British middle and upper class of the great inter-bellum years-but Huxley's are drawn with a Daumier-like fascination and disgust, Waugh's by the lunatic but precise line of a Ronald Searle...
...rooms are filled with drawings and prints among which are sixteenth century drawings, a woodcut of Durer, etchings by Jacques Callot, and lithographs by Goya and Daumier. The collection also includes the famous Mlle. Eglantine color lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, works by Renoir and Rouault, and some by Americans such as Ben Shahn...
Last Saturday night I had a girl in my room. The first few hours were all right. We talked about Daumier; what a grisly month January is; the trouble with Wellesley girls (they're always talking about marriage); why Europe is becoming a bore; what it is with Soc Rel; marriage; the temperature; and John Foster Dulles. At about 10:30 I sensed that she was growing listless. I got up and put on some Stravinsky. But it was no use. She was definitely beginning to lose interest. I looked at my watch...