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| | Honoré Daumier: public & private by Karen Wilkin (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Daumier continued to publish images fiercely critical of contemporary French society, displaying sinister physicians, threatening judges, brutal butchers, unlovely matrons, and more to his fellow Parisians, as though serving as the citys self-appointed conscience. |
 | | Yet for the most part, Daumiers drawings (as opposed to his published works) remained unknown to twentieth-century audiences; the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the first to focus on his works on paperin chalk, charcoal, conté crayon, ink, and watercolorapart from his caricatures. |
 | | Known as essentially a commercial artist lacking academic training, Daumier nonetheless seems to have longed for the dignity and presumed seriousness of the academic artist; drawing was a principal tool in his ceaseless effort to bring his skill up to what he perceived as that exalted level. |
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