William Hogarth
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764) · Artists · Died at 66
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Something wrong?His picture-stories of harlots, rakes, and disastrous marriages turned 18th-century London's vices into serialized morality tales so sharp that political cartoons in his vein are still called "Hogarthian."
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A Harlot's Progress, Plate 3 (BM 1857,0613.1098)
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, Any two opposite colours of the rainbow (eg yellow and blue) , form a third between them, thus imparting to each other their peculiar qualities .
A great many people seem to delight most in what they least understand.
After the March to Finchley, the next print I engraved, was the Roast Reef of old England; which took its rise from a visit I paid to France the preceding year.
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Hogarth was born into a lower-middle-class London family on 10 November 1697, and his father's imprisonment for debt - an episode that shadowed him - gave his work its hard edge. He apprenticed with an engraver but never finished, instead drawing on French and Italian influences to forge a new mode: satirical caricatures and what he called "modern moral subjects," realistic yet bawdy picture-sequences like A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage A-la-Mode. Mass-produced as prints, they became wildly popular in his lifetime, and Charles Lamb later said you didn't just look at Hogarth's pictures - you read them, dense with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words." He died on 26 October 1764, by far the most significant English artist of his generation.
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