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Ranked alongside Ingres by Baudelaire as the finest draughtsman in Paris and matched as a political caricaturist in the nineteenth century only by Goya, Honoré Daumier worked for opposition newspapers
throughout the Second Empire, one of the most corrupt and flamboyant periods in French history. He won fame, notoriety, and so a prison sentence, for his prodigious output of caricatures of prominent politicians and his relentless lampooning of the hypocrisy and pretentions of contemporary Parisian moeurs.
Sarah Symmons both examines Daumier’s role as a professional newspaper artist and explores his more personal body of work, which remained largely unknown during his lifetime. Investigating his series of
watercolours and oils of the ordinary citizens of Paris, of the railway travellers, mounte-banks and washerwomen who also people his caricatures, she finds a tragic monumentality far removed from the
journalistic cynicism of much of his newspaper work. This quality they share with his more ambitious studies of the dispossessed, of fugitives and emigrants, and of the heroically absurd wanderings of Don Quixote.
Often choosing to paint the simple everyday life he saw around him, Daumier was a model example of le peintre de la vie moderne, while his use of pictorial understatement and his painstaking search for absolute
simplicity gave many of his pictures an experimental, ‘unfinished’ quality, which discouraged official recognition, but led to such artists as Picasso, Steinlen and Paul Klee to study his work closely during their formative years. Sarah Symmons has produced a comprehensive analysis of Daumier’s career as a painter, sculptor and caricaturist, documenting his striving for the stark and truthful simplicity which gives his finest work an air of universality and permanence, while reflecting the anxieties and insecurity of his own life and times.
throughout the Second Empire, one of the most corrupt and flamboyant periods in French history. He won fame, notoriety, and so a prison sentence, for his prodigious output of caricatures of prominent politicians and his relentless lampooning of the hypocrisy and pretentions of contemporary Parisian moeurs.
Sarah Symmons both examines Daumier’s role as a professional newspaper artist and explores his more personal body of work, which remained largely unknown during his lifetime. Investigating his series of
watercolours and oils of the ordinary citizens of Paris, of the railway travellers, mounte-banks and washerwomen who also people his caricatures, she finds a tragic monumentality far removed from the
journalistic cynicism of much of his newspaper work. This quality they share with his more ambitious studies of the dispossessed, of fugitives and emigrants, and of the heroically absurd wanderings of Don Quixote.
Often choosing to paint the simple everyday life he saw around him, Daumier was a model example of le peintre de la vie moderne, while his use of pictorial understatement and his painstaking search for absolute
simplicity gave many of his pictures an experimental, ‘unfinished’ quality, which discouraged official recognition, but led to such artists as Picasso, Steinlen and Paul Klee to study his work closely during their formative years. Sarah Symmons has produced a comprehensive analysis of Daumier’s career as a painter, sculptor and caricaturist, documenting his striving for the stark and truthful simplicity which gives his finest work an air of universality and permanence, while reflecting the anxieties and insecurity of his own life and times.
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Dr Sarah Symmons-Goubert, a lecturer at Essex University, has won numerous awards for her academic work and was part-author and organiser of two international exhibitions on British Romantic Painting and the art of the sculptor John Flaxman. She has published five art-historical books including Art and Ideas - Goya (1998) from Phaidon Press. Her latest work is Goya - A Life in Letters. She combines detailed research into Spanish art with broader interests in Romanticism, Neo-classicism and British sculpture and painting before the First World War.
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- PublisherChaucer Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1904449239
- ISBN 13 9781904449232
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages128
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