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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Swoon

Artist Swoon reflects on Honoré Daumier's The Third-Class Carriage in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"You feel the love that is contained within looking. A painting can convey an entire emotional position on the world."

Artist Swoon reflects on Honoré Daumier's "The Third-Class Carriage" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Swoon, born Caledonia Dance Curry in 1977, is an American street artist.

Dawn and Gemma, a painting by Swoon, features as its central image a mother breastfeeding her infant child with a large tree in the foreground

Swoon (American, born 1977)

Dawn and Gemma, 2014

Wood, paper, paint; 52 × 23 3/4 × 1 in. (132.1 × 60.3 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist (2015.58) © Swoon. Photo: Tod Seelie

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The Third-Class Carriage, Honoré Daumier French, Oil on canvas
The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier
1864