Parties and Politics

Susan Froyd January 28, 2010 4:00AM

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Sniffed at as a mere caricaturist in his own time and buried in a pauper’s grave, the realist artist Honoré Daumier was a keen satirist and sociopolitical observer of Parisian life in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as a prolific master lithographer whose works paint a lively picture of that historical milieu. It’s not much of a stretch to call him a true precursor of our modern political cartoonists and sophisticated illustrators.

For those reasons, Honoré Daumier and the Parisian Pulse, a new exhibit opening at Colorado State University’s University Art Museum, offers a fine excuse to make the hour’s journey north for the opening reception, tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Robert W. Hoffert Gallery. Featuring a rich sampling of the artist’s lithographs from a collection donated to the museum (in his life, Daumier ran more than 4,000 prints), the show continues through March 13; the museum is located in the University Center for the Arts, 1400 Remington Street on the CSU campus. Admission is free; go to www.artmuseum.colostate.edu or call 970-491-1989 for information.
Jan. 12-March 13, 2010

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Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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