Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...National Gallery, blue-coated guards in reinforced numbers paced the corridors. Military policemen stood in every room. But the 202 paintings they were guarding (estimated value: $80,000,000) were not loot, though they too had been brought back by conquerors (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). All but two-a Daumier and a Manet-had once hung on the walls of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
Because he had little chance to paint in oils, Daumier has been called one of the most frustrated of artists, but cartooning was his chosen art. He never expressed any yearning for the ivory tower; the struggles of the marketplace were meat & drink...
...Dozen Don Quixotes. Except for a brief respite after the revolution of 1848, Daumier waged a running battle with the censors. When they bore down too hard, he turned from political to social satire, illustrated his favorite novel Don Quixote a dozen times, and ultimately got around to the easel-paintings-the blacksmiths and laundresses, as dignified as Rembrandt's illustrations of the Bible-on which his reputation as a 19th Century master largely rests...
...contemporary newsman reported that Daumier looked like one of his own cruelest caricatures, "but if one . . . tries to penetrate this bourgeois shell, the features soon brighten into life. That little eye with its heavy lid, half-closed in perpetual winking, thrusts at you its clear sharp look . . . even his nose seems to enjoy the observations he has just made...