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...customary, at least in Belgium, to see Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except that he was in favor of free education and universal suffrage, and against the riot squad - not the most developed of ideologies. He disliked the Belgian monarchy and went...
...been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers, whispering together like upholstered vultures...
...journalistic institution still manages to encapsulate crises, expose pretensions and eviscerate swollen egos-all with a few well-drawn strokes. Two new paperback editions underscore the point. On the far side of history, Thomas Nast: Cartoons & Illustrations (Dover) reveals a mature artist whose work could exhibit the bite of Daumier and the mordant wit of Twain. His meticulous crosshatching created three ineradicable symbols: the Democratic Donkey, the Republican Elephant and the Tammany Tiger. Nast's gentler conceptions of John Bull, Uncle Sam and even Santa Claus are the ones that most artists still sedulously ape. On the near side...
Crimson: Well, do you see yourself like Daumier, chronicling a whole...
...Contemporaries of Degas," being shown in conjunction with the Museum's highly publicized Degas exhibit, displays lithographs, etchings and a few oil paintings by artists who explored the same subject matter as Degas or who were greatly influenced by the "reluctant impressionist." Prints by Toulous-Lautrec, Signac, Vuillard and Daumier are organized around the themes of women, nightlife, the circus--subjects which have rarely if ever been treated with as much insight and relish as in the works of these artists. "Paris Observed" is a brief but memorable introduction to mid-18th-century Paris and Parisians as seen by Daumier...