1859
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Commençant a rendre justice aux blanches is a 1859 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier shows a soldier in a silly uniform pointing a cannon at floating heads. The heads look like they’re made of paper or dough. This is a harsh joke about how power treats people as targets instead of equals. Daumier was a sharp critic who used cartoons to attack unfair leaders. Many of his prints got banned for telling hard truths. Next, look up lithography.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870.
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