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Honore Daumier. Les dessins d'une Comedie Humaine (Poche Couleur N° 29) (Poche Couleur)
Honore Daumier Les dessins d'une Comedie Humaine - Poche Couleur N° 29 - Poche Couleur Author:Jean-Jacques Leveque Like Balzac, his first name was Honore, and, like Balzac, he wanted his work to present the entire human species. Working in series (he made some fifty of them, going from People of Justice to Doctors, from Renters and Owners to Travels on the Railroad, from Blue Stockings to Good Bourgeois, from Conjugal Mores to Parisian Types), Daumier create... more »d a gallery of this Human Comedy that showed the tragedies of its fate and the meanness of its everyday life. With an extraordinarily free style, energetic and masterly drawings, Daumier was one of the greatest cartoonists of all time. But it would be a mistake to only look at this fairly well-known part of his work and career. Jean-Jacques Leveque offers a much vaster view of the artist and focuses much more on Daumier the painter, long ignored, who can be seen to have been one of the boldest painters of his time. He was certainly one of the precursors of modern painting, just like Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin. The strength of his expression, the intensity of his style, the incredible energy that he used to create a world snatched from banal reality to become visionary, even fantastic. His work gets carried away in lyrical flights of fancy, both strange and stimulating, which are truly a part of Romanticism. This book is a pleasure both for the eye and the mind.« less