CURRENTLY showing Edinburgh Festival is a stunning exhibition of the work French republican artist Honoré Daumier (1808-1879).
Daumier's art is of particular interest to revolutionaries. From his early vicious satires ot Lous Philloe the reactionar Bourbon king; the chilling brutality of Rue Transnoain; and the later merciless satires of the middle classes, combined a unique artistic vision with a commited political outlook.
Far from being intimidated by the laws of censorship under which he was imprisoned in 1834, Daumier constantly strove to find new artistic forms which, though acceptable to the censor, tinued to express his disgust towards the reactionaries governing France.
In a life that spanned the revolution of 1830; 1848, and the Paris Commune of 1870, Daumier poverty and complete lack of recognition to produce literally thousands of illustrations for the popular press, which maintain their power and relevance today.
at the Daumier oil paintings, sculptures con- Academy, Sundays, September.
overcame abject Guardian Daumier exhibition of lithographs, Wale colors at Royal Scottish Princes Street, Edinburgh. 10am to 9pm daily including 13. August to Box Office 930 32l6 KEIT Future' a hypocrite of 1834 Challenge pamphlet 'Rue Transnonain, 15 April 1834' — A police massacre of a poor family of Daumier's quarter in Paris 'Louis Phillipe contemplating the Past, Present and 'Conciliatory Attitude of the Moderates' Daumier exposes the Social Democrats of 1871
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