| Birmingham Museum of Art presents the witty and incisive editorial cartoons of Jean-Honore Daumier |
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BIRMINGHAM, AL.- One of nineteenth century France’s most popular and influential artists brings Birmingham a fascinating look into politics, society and culture in the exhibition Daumier: Art For the Masses - Selected Works from the Rowe Collection.The exhibition of 169 lithographs is being exhibited at the Birmingham Museum of Art’s Jemison Galleries. Daumier (1808-1879) was a painter and sculptor, but he was also a prominent printmaker, producing more than four thousand lithographs, many of which were satires depicting the lighter aspects of French politics, society, and culture. This fall, the BMA exhibition features Daumier’s insightful take on subjects such as art, drinking and dining, feminism, Gallic life, love and family life, and the theater - all illlustrated with great skill and sharpness of opinion. Daumier made these works for illustrations in popular daily newspapers, thus providing art that c read full article
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