Honoré Daumier: An Artist of Commentary
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society. His paintings, though hardly known during his lifetime, helped introduce techniques of Impressionism into modern art.
His work and his often controversial social and political critique is said to have impacted his contemporaries, as well as such artists as Édouard Manet and Henri Matisse. In his day, Charles Baudelaire referred to Daumier as "one of the most important men, not only... in caricature, but also in modern art…”.
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