Thursday, January 18, 2007

For all LONDON people: Hogarth at the Tate Museum!!




Starting the 7th of February!!!

William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects.” Much of his work, though at times vicious, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs.

Marital ethics were the topic of much debate in 18th-century Britain. Frequent marriages of convenience and their attendant unhappiness came in for particular criticism, with a variety of authors taking the view that love was a much sounder basis for marriage. Hogarth here painted a satire – a genre that by definition has a moral point to convey – of a conventional marriage within the English upper class. Mr. Hogarth, painted a series called Marriage a la Mode. 6 paintings a pointed skewering at the upper class in the 18th century. It shows the miserable tragedy of an ill-considered marriage for money.

He was VERY much a man of his time.

Please enjoy the visuals. AND for all Londoners, GO VISIT TATE!!!

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