Word: daumiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugee from the Grand Guignol is now widely considered to be Britain's most exciting painter. At 52, Bacon deserves his success, for he has resisted every trend and fashion in art to hack out a path all his own. Though shaped by such old masters as Rembrandt, Daumier and Velasquez ("He haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn and dislocated figures often seem...
...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...
...woman stands in front of a clock that ticks away her life. The stock oppressors-the politicians and the plutocrats-are used only to show artist's concern for the oppressed. His work is in a durable tradition: a Gropper senator does not date any more than a Daumier judge or a Prussian officer by George Grosz. In Gropper, the "old guard" seems amazingly young...
WHAT'S GOT YOUR BACK UP? by Bill Mouldin (146 pp.; Harper; $3.95). Herblock is clearly Mauldin's master and Daumier his god; this collection of his work proves that he has edged past the one and is moving determinedly, in quality of line and force of wit, toward the other. The best cartoon book of the season...
...Fried Eggs. Daumier made lithographs, 3,958 in all, until he went blind at 65. But all along he was painting, though no more than a handful of his canvases were shown in public before the last year of his life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people...