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...green uniform recently acquired by M. Forain, cartoonist...
...latest wearer of the green uniform of the Academie des Beaux Arts, one of the five subdivisions of the ancient Institut de France, is J. L. Forain, famous cartoonist of Le Figaro. He was a pupil of Honore Daumier, greatest of all users of the satiric brush of the political cartoonist. Daumier was a great artist from any point of view. Forain has never equalled him, but his position is very important, not only in journalism, but in " straight" etching and painting as well...
...Election to the Institut will add nothing to the fame of J. L. Forain," says one Paris paper, which adds that " he owes almost nothing to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, child of the Institut...
...when our journalistic art comes of age (which there are signs that it is already beginning to do) it will no doubt take an entirely different form from that of France. French cartoons tend to make the observer wince or smile, the American to make him laugh or frown. Forain is of the first type of French cartoonist; sombre, mordant, much wit and little humor...
...Forain, like Daumier, has always been interested in the courts of law, and many of the prints in the exhibition are scenes of the courts. There are also prints dealing with religious subjects--scenes from the Bible and scenes in the life of the pilgrims at Lourdes. Belonging to this latter group are "La Miraculee" and "La Communion des Malades", remarkable for their deep and intense feeling. One of the artist's fine compositions that appeared during the war is shown, "La Borne" (Verdun...