Word: daumiers
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...guided by Blake's mysticism, by Goya's cynicism and savagery, by Delacroix's romanticism, by Daumier's humanity and tenderness; or better still follow your own inevitable star...
...antiquated river steamers puffed through the heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments...
...nostalgic journey started in the center of France's capital with the most beautiful canvas in the show, Honore Daumier's golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...emphasis in this show was not on caricature. A less famous side of Artist Bacon's work was revealed in her increasingly Daumier-like preoccupation with the seamier side of life. Like Honore Daumier, with whose work hers has often been compared, Peggy Bacon has descended the social ladder to portray Manhattan's grimmest alleys, its courtrooms, bars, garish streets at night, garbage cans crawling with kittens, drunks at home the morning-after. Result: her art is more inclusive and more subtle without becoming less satiric...