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EARTH AND THE ELEMENTS198 Air in Motion Turner carries us to the heart of the maelstrom. Terrifying
THE GREAT INVISIBLE SUBJECT o f these d r a w i n g s is t h e w i n d . By waves of merciless nature roar across the paper. The great
seeing how it shakes, lifts, and gives motion to each image, and master of English seascape is conducting with his graphic
by observing its tides and eddies in our own environment, we energy. The ship, a scratched ghost, is already lost.
can soon learn to draw its force. Below, Daumier's cartoon
shines with the brilliance of his comic memory. He knew how Hokusais sedate wind presses reeds and the journeys of
the world bends and stutters under such gusts. This wife, like young ladies. Flapping kimonos and an onlooker turning his
an umbrella forced inside-out, has become a hysterical kite, back have the magic of a moment caught, undramatic but
fluttering heavily; a sail broken loose in a stormy marriage. brimming with stylized realism.

HONORE DAUMIER Crayon and limestone This is a lithograph. A hard waxy crayon Danger of Wearing Balloon
was drawn across a heavy limestone Varying definitions of lire Petticoats
French satirical cartoonist lithographer, painter, and depths of tone conspire to give volume, distance, speed, and UNDATED
sculptor, and pioneer ofexpressionism.Through solidity. Fluid strokes inflate the woman's dress and pin shadows
political drawings he fired his sharp wit at the king, to the ground. Hazy vertical marks reveal buildings receding HONORE DAUMIER
the government, the bourgeoisie, and the legal into the mist. Dots and dashes suggest trees out of focus.
profession, serving a prison sentence for his views.