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Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
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This instruction by suggestion
"For shams, innocent as they may be, Daumier has nothing but a scathing comment. His honest pencil unveils the foolish pretense and by the simple act seems to place the artist on that high plane of mental aristocracy where to be consciously superior or consciously exclusive is to be an alien.
"This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays upon Daumier's part a finer instinct for social relations than that which he commonly is credited. Bourgeois and bohemian -- so far as the latter is the inevitable state of the French artist -- he may have been, but he was also to a degree patrician in his ultimate criticisms."
1. What does the author mean with "innocent as they may be?"
2. Please explain what the blue sentence means.
Thank you.
Cadzao
"This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays upon Daumier's part a finer instinct for social relations than that which he commonly is credited. Bourgeois and bohemian -- so far as the latter is the inevitable state of the French artist -- he may have been, but he was also to a degree patrician in his ultimate criticisms."
1. What does the author mean with "innocent as they may be?"
2. Please explain what the blue sentence means.
Thank you.
Cadzao
Top answer
"innocent as they may be" - shams/cheats are usually intentional, but in this case may be unintentional "This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays, upon Daumer's part, a finer instinct for social relations than that with which is commonly is credited" - generally Daumier is regarded as a social critic who has coarse interpretations of social relationships, but his use of suggestion in his satirical drawings indicates he has a more subtle understanding.
- "innocent as they may be" - shams/cheats are usually intentional, but in this case may be unintentional "This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays, upon Daumer's part, a finer instinct for social relations than that with which is commonly is credited" - generally Daumier is regarded as a social critic who has coarse interpretations of social relationships, but his use of suggestion in his satirical drawings indicates he has a more subtle understanding.
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"innocent as they may be" - shams/cheats are usually intentional, but in this case may be unintentional
"This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays, upon Daumer's part, a finer instinct for social relations than that with which is commonly is credited" - generally Daumier is regarded as a social critic who has coarse interpretations of social relationships,
"This instruction by suggestion in the values of the social order betrays, upon Daumer's part, a finer instinct for social relations than that with which is commonly is credited" - generally Daumier is regarded as a social critic who has coarse interpretations of social relationships,
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"For shams, no matter how innocent (they are), Daumier has nothing but a scathing comment.
Or less idiomatic, but perhaps more clear for you:
"For shams, and it doesn't matter how innocent (they are), Daumier has nothing but a scathing comment.
Or less idiomatic, but perhaps more clear for you:
"For shams, and it doesn't matter how innocent (they are), Daumier has nothing but a scathing comment.
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