Word: daumier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MINO MACCARI-Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd St. The first U.S. one-man show by an Italian painter-etcher. Viewers will be reminded of Grosz, Daumier and Goya with their stingers removed: Maccari is a sympathetic satirist. Through...
...Italian futurists were turned down because of some sort of disagreement now lost to history. But aside from these omissions, just about every big name in modern art was in, and the big names turned out to be mostly French, including the small historical perspective of Ingres, Delacroix, Daumier and Corot. But perspective was not what the critics...
...teachers, Soyer remembers vividly George Bellows and Robert Henri, and most especially he remembers the night that Henri introduced him to a Daumier drawing of hungry men and women and their sad-eyed children. He immediately felt the "sympathy with which the artist drew this group." Soyer has always had this same sympathy for his own sad-eyed figures. They often seem overwhelmed by their own thoughts, caught in a moment of reverie when, while most turned in upon themselves, they reveal themselves the most. Of his style, Soyer says: "I like an artist who talks with a low voice...
...Part II Michele Morgan is valiant and pure as a woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...case with the two farces by Georges Courteline currently being offered by the Actors Playhouse, at the Hotel Bostonian. Article 330, the curtain-raiser, is one of a number of brief but biting anti-legal playlets by Courteline, inspired by much the same distaste for juridical hoopla underlying Daumier's Gens de Justice and countless other examples of esprit gaulois from Mantre Pathelin to the present. La Brige, harassed hero of several Courteline comedies, finds himself at odds with Justice for violation of the article in the Civil Code forbidding indecent exposure. But this is no scabrous little burlesque...