Honoré Daumier: The Moral Gaze

This is an introductory video for a playlist exploring Honoré Daumier’s development of a “moral gaze.” Daumier is widely regarded as the greatest French caricaturist of the 19th. The videos in this playlist, examine how his art visualized the causes and consequences of modernism. Daumier, who was one of leading figures in Realist movement, famously stated “One Must Be of One’s Own Time.”
The compositional structure of Daumier’s images, which often visualize subjects of social injustice, implicate the viewer within the subject. The viewer is transformed from passive spectator to engaged participant. Visualizing modernity through Honoré Daumier’s imagination, these works of art cultivate the viewer’s “moral gaze.”
Written and narrated by Dr. James Romaine.#GJWculture #Antiques #Art #ArtExplained #Paitting