Who needs news when we have faces to read? Expressions drawn by Honore Daumier jump right off the page to make you smile, ponder or even cry. Here is a wonderful exhibit of Daumier’s drawings on “Reading,”:
I love the dreamy image of the man on right. Visit the full Daumier Online Register for information on all of its exhibits.
And in New York at the MOMA is an exhibition of Magritte. Being from Houston I’ve seen a lot of his work, but this exhibit offers new images to me and every other fan of his pieces at the Menil. I love his work: so alive and challenging to our logic; happy, yet haunting.
And finally “Place Pigalle” by Joseph Cain from the FBI’s online gallery of stolen art. Perhaps mostly dealers and crime writers browse it regularly, but maybe you can be the sharp-eyed civilian who spots a hot masterpiece.
What art did you see this week? Tell us about it in the comments.
Loved the Daumer slide show.
Thanks, rhchaitlin. He is such a great master and so often not given his due since much of his best-known works were caricature. Sort of like the great actor never given full respect because he is also a comedian. Dauier’s range of emotional content amazes me.