Word: daumiers
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...with the resolute faces of Fighting Frenchmen as they enlist under De Gaulle in London. There is one memorable glimpse of the cold, incredulous fury in the eyes of the victims of Laval's industrial draft. In such shots The Fighting French has the fierce impact of a Daumier drawing. More important, the picture conveys a cumulative sense of a nation possessing not only the spirit but the gathering power to make a comeback...
...Goya, Daumier, Homer, and Bellows are represented in "Prints of Six Wars," dating from the Thirty Years War, while a German, Otto Dix, found the most gruesome inspiration from the last...
...Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
...painting, once spent a summer studying with Henry Varnum Poor), Cartoonist Fitzpatrick spent his time last week in a happy whirl of chats and drinks, bought a painting by Max Weber. As a concession to Art, Fitzpatrick had hung two oil paintings among his cartoons: one a Daumier-brown picture of a group of card players, the other a dour, Picassoesque self-portrait (see cut). Of the latter he said sadly: "It was done in one of my blue periods, during a hangover...
...Marcel Duchamp (famed for his Nude ,Descending the Staircase), John Sloan climbed to the top of Washington Square's Arch, there built a bonfire and read a solemn declaration proclaiming Greenwich Village an independent republic. Less violent than his speeches and ideas were John Sloan's trenchant, Daumier-like paintings and etchings of Manhattan street and rooftop scenes which got him a name as one of the best U.S. realists...