[Gullivers] Free Social Event

[Carl Brown]

This Saturday Liz and I are going to see "The Satrical Eye: Comedy and
Critique from Hogarth to Daumier"
Meet us at 10am in the foyer of the NGV International on St Kilda Road,
on Saturday. It's an exhibition of Gulliver's Era cartoons!
RSVP's appreciated so we know to look out for you.
Could someone tell Jay and any other non-net luddites?
 
Details 
This exhibition presents the Golden Age of satirical prints and drawings
in Europe, focusing on the period 1730?. William Hogarth's images of
London street life, with all its chaos and transgressions, set the stage
for the next generation of English satirists including Thomas
Rowlandson, James Gillray and George Cruikshank. Their audacious prints
range from political satires that were aimed directly at prominent
public figures, to scenarios that highlight fashions, fads and social
manners as subjects of mockery. Because these prints reached a wide
audience, they were a catalyst for gossip and debate, and influenced the
public's views on issues of the day. The exhibition also explores
contemporary and subsequent satirical art in Spain and France. In 1799
the Spanish artist Francisco Goya published Los Caprichos, a series of
etchings that express the values of the Enlightenment in their
condemnation of prejudice, ignorance and superstition. In France the
genre of visual satire had its greatest artist in Honoré Daumier, whose
prints were widely circulated and enormously popular in the nineteenth
century. Like all of the satirical works in the exhibition, these images
reveal something about human nature, as well as commenting on
historically specific situations and individuals.

Dates: 27/02/2009 - 26/07/2009 

Category: Arts, Culture & Heritage

Location: Robert Raynor Gallery, Ground Level
NGV International
180 St Kilda Road
Melbourne




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