Word: daumier
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...Paris' Louvre of work by painters born in Provence (where garlic is even more popular than elsewhere in France). As a group, the paintings did give off a strong flavor: baroque, darkly passionate and hot as the Midi sun. The most famous of the lot were by Fragonard, Daumier and Cezanne. (In maturity they learned to blend garlic with more subtle spices, and rose above their baroque beginnings to highly individual achievements.) But the star of the Louvre's show was a lesser man, Adolphe Monticelli, who remained typically Provencal throughout his career, was almost forgotten...
Rouault, who had been a highly academic student, started experimenting with a vengeance, trapping lumpish whores, leering judges and miserable clowns in slashes and fat smears of hot dark paint. Outrage seemed his inspiration and Daumier his master. He sold practically nothing until he was past 40; even his friends found him unbearably perverse. Writer Léon Bloy, who had converted Rouault to Catholicism, put it bluntly: "You have a hideousness in your head...
...drawings have perished; but the sharpness of his talent may be glimpsed in a cartoon entitled "WHEN THE REVOLUTION HAPPENS: Bernard Shaw Refuses to Drink the Blood of Aristocrats on Vegetarian Principles and out of Kindness to the Lower Animals." This work is not only a splendid parody of Daumier, it is also an example of Chesterton's genius for translating his gravest opinions into wit. It was, for instance, agony for him to tear himself "out of bed for Mass. He was not speaking lightly when he groaned: "Only religion could have brought us to such a pass...
...with equal ease, a cavalry charge or a crinolined cocotte. As a war correspondent in the Crimea, he turned out sheaves of detailed drawings of battles and camp life. As a Parisian artist-about-town, he caught the elegant manners and shady morals of his contemporaries. Although he lacked Daumier's satiric bite and Rowlandson's ribald bounce, Guys's quick eye and facile technique made him one of Europe's ablest 19th century reporters. Last week, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, some of the best of Guys's reporting...
Rivera got into the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts when he was only eleven, but his real teacher was José Posada, the Daumier of Mexico, whose printmaking shop stood near the school. "I used to peer into his window every evening," says Rivera, "until at last he invited me inside. We talked together for seven years, about politics and art. He taught me the connection between art and life; that you can't express what you don't feel...