1866
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Parlons, Madame...ces nudités sont révoltantes... is a 1866 ink by Honoré Daumier, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Daumier’s lithograph shows a crowded art gallery where people in fancy clothes stare at nude paintings. Their faces twist—some smirk, some scowl. The artist uses thick black lines to sharpen their opinions. This isn’t just gossip. Daumier mocked how people pretend to understand art. The gallery itself looks messy. One man checks his watch. Another hides his face. His sharp lines make you see the joke. Try Daumier, Honoré 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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