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J See also:FORAIN . L . (1852- ), See also:French painter and illustrator, was See also:born in 1852 . He became one of the leading See also:modern Parisian caricaturists, who in his merciless exposure of the weaknesses of the bourgeoisie continued the See also:work which was begun by See also:Daumier under the second See also:Empire . The scathing bitterness of his See also:satire is as clearly derived from Daumier as his pictorial See also:style can be traced to See also:Manet and See also:Degas; but even in his See also:painting he never suppresses the See also:caustic spirit that drives him to See also:caricature . He has, indeed, been rightly called " a Degas pushed on to caricature." In his See also:pen-and-See also:ink work he combines extraordinary See also:economy of means with the utmost See also:power of expression and See also:suggestion . See also:Forain's popularity See also:dates from the publication of his Comedie parisienne, a See also:series of two See also:hundred and fifty sketches republished in See also:book See also:form . He has contributed many admirable, if sometimes over-daring, pages to the See also:Figaro, Le Rire, L'Assiette au beurre, Le Courrier franQais, and L'Indiscret . His See also:political drawings for the Figaro were republished in book form under the See also:title of Doux Pays . |
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