1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Deux phénomènes, spectacle gratis ... is a 1850 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
A crowd fills the scene. One man waves his arms, yelling. Another in a top hat stares at the ground, bored. The lines are crisp and sharp. Daumier used stone to draw this. He pressed ink on limestone then printed it. The method lets him catch quick moods with scratchy lines. See how the speaker’s face twists? That energy jumps off the page. Check out lithography next.
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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