. Art in France. 7 ^>. —1. WARM. ( )MR. KMILK yks. its I.(Hil)liotheque Nationale, Print Rmnn.) 350 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. Fll,. 7?0.— DIVORCERS. (LITHOGRAPH.) (Bibliothcque Nationale, Print Room.) dies without any inkling that he is nothing but a pompous fool. Gavarms nervous hand recorded fashionable Hfe, the festivities of carnival time, the Bohemia of the student, and the conjugal misfor-tunes of the National Guard. Daumier in particular has left us powerful and atrocious images of society, of the king and his rate-able bourgeoisie busily directing
. Art in France. 7 ^>. —1. WARM. ( )MR. KMILK yks. its I.(Hil)liotheque Nationale, Print Rmnn.) 350 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. Fll,. 7?0.— DIVORCERS. (LITHOGRAPH.) (Bibliothcque Nationale, Print Room.) dies without any inkling that he is nothing but a pompous fool. Gavarms nervous hand recorded fashionable Hfe, the festivities of carnival time, the Bohemia of the student, and the conjugal misfor-tunes of the National Guard. Daumier in particular has left us powerful and atrocious images of society, of the king and his rate-able bourgeoisie busily directing a revolution by which they hoped to live, but which was to, destroy them. Daumier treated the human figure with astonishing audacity; his irritable extravagance reveals a temperament still essentially romantic; he deformed, twisted, elongated or inflated bodies and faces, to show character or emphasise a type. These great caricaturists were the precursors of the realists. Orleanist society lives again with Monniers Joseph Prudhomme, Gavarnis Lorette, Daumiers Ventre Legislatif Robert Macaire, the precursors of his later type, thefamous Rat
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