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| − | William Hogarth is unquestionably one of the greatest English artists and a man of remarkably individual character and thought. He is the great innovator in English art. On one hand, he was the first to paint themes from Shakespeare, Milton and the theater, and the founder of a wholly original genre of moral history, which was long known as Hogarthian. On the other, he investigated the aesthetic principles of his art, which resulted in his book “The Analysis of Beauty”(1753). [http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarthbio.html] | + | William Hogarth is unquestionably one of the greatest English artists and a man of remarkably individual character and thought. He is the great innovator in English art. On one hand, he was the first to paint themes from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], [[John Milton| Milton]] and the theater, and the founder of a wholly original genre of moral history, which was long known as Hogarthian. On the other, he investigated the [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] principles of his art, which resulted in his book “The Analysis of Beauty”(1753). [http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hogarth/hogarthbio.html] |
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William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in English art. He was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters.
William Hogarth is unquestionably one of the greatest English artists and a man of remarkably individual character and thought. He is the great innovator in English art. On one hand, he was the first to paint themes from Shakespeare, Milton and the theater, and the founder of a wholly original genre of moral history, which was long known as Hogarthian. On the other, he investigated the aesthetic principles of his art, which resulted in his book “The Analysis of Beauty”(1753). [1]
Wanstead Assembly at Wanstead House.
See also
External links
- "Hogarth, Constable and Turner" - appeared in "Masterpieces of English Painting" by Hans Huth