Dear all,
someone asked on the blog about the short movie "Daumier's Law". I think you can have a look on utube, for example here:
Parts 1-2-3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsyybO9MXNM
Parts 4-5-6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTBeVW8Pjk&feature=related
It is amazing, isn't it?
"WHO STOLE THE TARTS?": Alice in Wonderland, Chap. 11
From Arthur Rackham's illustrations (1907) to Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", 1865
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I want to thank Dr. Gialdroni for giving us the possibility to see again the Daumier's movies!
RispondiEliminaHappy Easter to everybody!
Best,
Flavia Mancini
I suggest this link about the technical drawing caricatures by Honorè Daumier:
RispondiEliminahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8xtdV-Rqn4&feature=related
It's nice!!
Flavia Mancini
and have a look at the other daumier films at
RispondiEliminahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U60N8XcjNtY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4NzlliuyoU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ZQ9y4v9Ag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsH_BbGJyo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVzRfYcCKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9eHTsvNfY
cosmo
Cosmo (?), all the links are very useful, but it would be useful too to understand who you are...you can write me an email if you want:
RispondiEliminastefaniagialdroni@gmail.com
Oh yes, it's amazing!!
RispondiEliminaHappy Easter
Anna Leonetti
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RispondiEliminaThe movie "Daumier's Law" impressed me very much.
RispondiEliminaI think that the soundtrack is very fitting....Paul McCartney is always a genius!!!
Camilla Bonadies
I just saw the videos of Daumier, thanks for have posted them! Sure he had a great ability to give an overview of the peculiar events of his time and also of the "human characters" who populated this reality; I mean real "characters", which he gave a voice only by portraying their facial expression, gestures or details (sometimes maybe exaggerating, but with never having missed the target).
RispondiEliminaMaybe I’m a little bit late, but I’d be happy to show some pictures that I’ve found on the basis of Professor Watt’s indications, looking to Daumier.
It was difficult to find some images that could be possibly compared with the unique works of Daumier, but I think that today the principal artistic (or, at least, figurative) form that could be compared with his peculiar style is the form of caricature.
In fact I’ve found some caricatures by famous Italian cartoonists which embody the spirit of Daumier’s works, if we recognize this spirit in the exaggerate, dramatic, symbolic representation of juridical and, above all, political reality around us.
For example, look at this caricature by Forattini
http://digilander.libero.it/monsoreau/Forattini20031029.gif
The title is “Magistratura Democratica” or Democratic Magistrature, and the picture is quite illustrative of the fact that now in Italy there is no justice, or so it seems. We can see a magistrate with a communist symbol on the back (maybe representing the supposed bias of him or the fact that magistrature is a supposed “totalitarian” regime, in some way), that is talking to a crucifix; near him we can see (if I’m not wrong) a Muslim, always facing the crucifix.
They seem to indicate another person, and blame her for something. The comprehension of this image is not simple but we could assume that the adjective “democratic” is well-represented (in an ironic way) by the presence of opposed symbols, the crucifix (that recalls the Vatican State too), the communist sickle (that recalls the alleged deployment of the magistrature “to the left”) and the exponent of another religion (that seems to refer itself to Catholic power in some way!).
(continues)
On the same line we find a caricature of Vauro, whose title is “Giustizia” (Justice)
RispondiEliminahttp://images-srv.leonardo.it/progettiweb/gfu/blog/giustizia_400.gif
He want to represent a Justice that is no real Justice, because it is in the hands of a judge that is sentenced to death: we can see that the judge is clearly crucifixed (though innocent) to the “Balance”, which has always been a symbol of Justice.
We see the image of a Justice sentenced to death also in the caricature of Mauro Biani, entitled “Il processo breve”, the Short Trial.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/4104240444_ba43547fa9_o.gif
The theme is both legal and political, and it is strictly connected to the recent facts of our political world. Biani represents Justice as a blindfolded Goddess, with the Balance in her hands: she is on the point to be hanged, and maybe Biani thinks that this is the principal effect of the short trial’s reform.
Beyond the many cartoons that i might mention, I wanna recall an important english writer, Banksy, who today is became the bearer of a social protest very important and significant.
Where we can find a situation of social decay, where we can find war or poorness, we find Banksy and his “mural pictures”, that embody at the same time a double need: the need to bring beauty, an artistic beauty, in “the decay” and “the deterioration”, and the need to report to the big audience certain situations.
An example is “the rain girl”
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/photos/banksy_couk_rain_girl.jpg
Banksy has made this picture after the Katrina Hurracane, in fact we can see the damages all around the innocent girl. The particular element that we can mark is that it’s raining under the umbrella. In this case the umbrella represents government, who is supposed to save the people of New Orleans from the storm, but he failed, so we can find in this image an hard critique both of contemporary culture as well as political power system, only by representing a little girl with a technique that recalls chiaro-scuro in a certain way.
Sorry if I have dwelt!
Best regards
Alessia Guaitoli