The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ? BEAl^TIFLL , ACCEPT MY ARM ! 4IO DA UMIER, CARICA TURIST. gesture to an almost symbolic immensity. Hispersons represent only one thing, but they in-sist tremendously on that, and their expressionof it abides with us, unaccompanied with timiddetail. It may really be said that they repre-sent only one class — the old and ugly. Sothat there is proof enough of a special facultyin his having played such a concert, lugubriousthough it be, on a single chord. It has beenmade a reproach to him, says M. Grand-Car-. bOLlALlSl; teret, that his work is lack
The Century illustrated monthly magazine . ? BEAl^TIFLL , ACCEPT MY ARM ! 4IO DA UMIER, CARICA TURIST. gesture to an almost symbolic immensity. Hispersons represent only one thing, but they in-sist tremendously on that, and their expressionof it abides with us, unaccompanied with timiddetail. It may really be said that they repre-sent only one class — the old and ugly. Sothat there is proof enough of a special facultyin his having played such a concert, lugubriousthough it be, on a single chord. It has beenmade a reproach to him, says M. Grand-Car-. bOLlALlSl; teret, that his work is lacking in two capitalelements — /a Jeiniesse ei /a feintne; and thiscommentator resents his being made to sufferfor the deficiency — as if an artist could beat the same time deep, comic, graceful, andpretty; as if all those who have a real valuehad not created for themselves a form to whichthey remain confined and a type which they re-produce in all its variations, as soon as theyhave touched the esthetic ideal which hasbeen their dream. Assuredly, humanity, asthis great painter saw it, could not be beauti-ful ; one asks ones self what a maiden in herteens, a pretty face, would have done in themidst of these good, plain folk, stunted andelderly, with faces like wrinkled apples. Asimple accessory most of the time, woman isfor him merely a termagant or a blue-stockingwho has turned the corner. When the eternal feminine, for Daumier,appears in neither of these forms he sees it in Madame Chaboulard or Madame Fribochon,the old snuft-taking, gossiping
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