I am Honoré Daumier, the caricaturist, painter, sculptor. Let me tell you a little about myself when I was young. I received a typical lower middle-class education. But, I was never interested in studying in the first place. I always wanted to draw. Because of my interest in drawing; my family placed me with the fairly well-known artist, Alexandre Lenoir.
I am not uncultured, and I did not teach myself as did most of the art historians of the late 19th and early 20th century. I benefited from a more interesting artistic education than many other artists. .
When I was only 13 years of age, my father's breakdown forced me to work. I decided to give up all this to become a artist in the between the years 1825 to 1828. I was only about 18 years of age back then. I came from a family of painters and I had learned to analyze sculpture, and also I was able to view how different classes of the society behaved. .
I could not only live from painting or from sculpting as I was planning on doing. So, I accepted commissions from popular magazines for portraits, cartoons, and caricatures. Even though, only some of my pieces were signed, many others were not. .
My life was devoted entirely to my work. From 1830-1847 I was a lithographer, cartoonist, and sculptor. About four thousand of my lithographs were contributed to various political and social newspapers, and also many magazines. Also, from 1848-1871 I began painting Impressionist paintings. My art reflected in the lithographs I was still constructing. .
I began painting in Impressionism, which is when faces and bodies become one with the surrounding environment. I painted about something that interested me. I would paint on everyday life, but sometimes I also painted on historical subjects.
I painted the Revolutionary leader "Camille Desmoulins-, inspiring the crowd in 1789. Some of my images were insulting to King Louis-Phillipe. He got me arrested in 1832, and I was in jail for two years.
Black people loved reading his works and hearing him read his poems at public presentations all over the country. ... Lawrence was influenced more by Francisco Goya and Honore Daumier, who painted very stark and politically charged artworks. ...