Word: philipon
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...Charles Philipon, one of the leaders of this artistic movement, published "La Caricature," a "short-lived but highly influential satirical journal." The magazine contained lithographs, an economical art form that had recently been developed...
Exhilaration notes at the entrance to the show introduce Philipon's work. These notes were written by James Cuno, the director of the Harvard Art Museums and the curator of the show. Four students from Cuno's Caricature seminar also worked on the exhibit and wrote the exhibition guide which explains the show piece by piece...
...work that Cuno highlights in the exhibit is Philipon's "Sketches Made in Court of November 14, 1831." The Pairs court tried the artist for creating a caricature that offended the king. Philipon claimed that since he had not named the king, any resemblance to the monarch was a coincidence. To illustrate this point, the artist drew four images before the court: the king, a pear with the king's hair and features, and a pear with only a suggestion of human features. Philipon argued that if the fourth image looked like the first, it was simply a coincidence...
...result of this court case and the images Philipon sketched, the pear became a widely-recognized satirical symbol of king Louis Philippe. Another pear image in exhibit is "Kindly Take Your Filth Elsewhere, You Brats!" by Auguste Bouquet. This colorful lithograph depicts children scribbling images of a pear on the wall of a woman's house. The woman leans out the window scolding the children. The piece's ambiguity as to whether "fifth" refers to the scribbling or to the king himself heightens the satiric impact...
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