Le Charivari: Le Poire

 

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)

2020  

screenprint 

16 7/8 x 11 1/4" image size 

pencil, lower right 

19 of 20  

Text within image: Le Charivari, Journal publiant un nouveau dessin sur l'actualite /This sketch resembles Donald Trump, will you therefore accept it as truthful? / Then you will have to concede that this one resembles the first. / Then accept this other, 

 

sturdy cream wove 

published 

artist 

ARHA210 

$100.00 

The portraits of Trump's co-conspirators shown in the banner are Steven Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, William Barr, Mitch McConnell, Michael Flynn, and Mike Pence. In his article “An Artist for the Moment,” Paul Von Blum wrote: “Hazelwood’s highly detailed woodcuts, etchings, lithographs, and book projects make him the legitimate heir of major political artists including Posada, Kollwitz, Daumier, and Goya. His recent works respond in imaginative ways to the present crises and the barbaric “leaders” who have created them…. For many years, Hazelwood has been using the work of the great nineteenth century French satirist Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) and his visual agitator colleagues as models for his own work. It emerges from the satirical journals La Charivari and La Caricature, which waged journalistic war on various reactionary French regimes for many decades. One strategy that Daumier and editor Charles Philipon employed was to use the pear, “poire,” to savagely attack French politicians. Daumier’s most scathing lithograph was his 1831 portrait of the corpulent monarch Louis Philippe I, for which he received a six-month prison sentence. Hazelwood emulated this style in a caricature completed on July 7 depicting Trump as a pear. It follows the precise format of La Charivari, and is based on a drawing by Philipon. Originally in France at the time, the pear was meant to signify “fool” or “blockhead.”