Honore daumier

Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a pear to criticize the corrupt and repressive policies of King Louis-Philippe. Patricia Mainardi investigates the history of this early 19th-century meme.

In an afterword to The Journalist and the Murderer (1990), I wrote about Jeffrey Masson’s lawsuit, taking a very high tone. I put myself above the fray; I looked at things from a glacial distance. My aim wasn’t to persuade anyone of my innocence. It was to show off what a good writer I was. Reading the piece now, I am full of admiration for its irony and detachment—and appalled by the stupidity of the approach.

Daumier spent most of his life drawing for the wide audience reached by France's popular press. But when he was temporarily let go from the magazine "Le Charivari" in 1860, he began to produce highly finished watercolors designed particularly for collectors

The Witnesses - The War Council

Honoré Daumier, prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor renowned for his cartoons satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.

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An astute observer of human nature and an often biting satirist, Honoré Daumier here masterfully employed watercolor to illustrate the foibles of the Frenc...

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