The exhibition "The World of William Hogarth's" presents 50 works by renowned British artist of the XVIII century

this week in Togliatti Museum of Art opened an exhibition "The World of William Hogarth; The exhibition features prints graphics and English painter William Hogarth (1697-1764).

The exhibition features 50 of 115 engravings of Hogarth, owned by the Samara Regional Art Museum. In Samara, the collection is well-known series such as "Career harlot" (1732), "Career spender" (1735), "Four time of day" (1738), "Fashionable Marriage" (1745), "Diligence and laziness" (1747) and "The parliamentary elections» (1754-1758).

In inexhaustible inventive creativity Hogarth opened with extraordinary for that time fully and convincingly the reality of English XVIII century. Salon painters at that time loved to depict the full grace dandies or fashionable beauties in silks and laces, idly strolling in the wealthy estates and parks with fashionable fountains. Hogarth was the first in English art was able to see life in all its ugly nakedness and reproduce it completely impartially. Subjects of his works he saw in the midst of life in England in those years.

In his narrative cycles with documentary precision, a story of continuous movement up and down the social ladder. Here we present, for example, the typical biography of a poor provincial town, found himself in London, sold a pilot Procuress high society libertine and then descended to the last line of shame and poverty ("Career whore »).

resembling it the story of a typical high society marriage of convenience, although she played in the other costumes and sets, but just as instructive and sad in its denouement ("Fashionable marriage »).

Peering into the brutal and unsightly the world depicted by William Hogarth, one can not see how from an engraving by an engraving growing outrage artist.

Art of William Hogarth took a worthy place in the English and European art, his aesthetic views of today are of interest for a researcher of English culture of the XVIII century. Edification, narrative, an abundance of detail, the style of Hogarth's engravings can touch the world and to empathize with the story told by the artist. Today's viewer empathizes with genuine feelings of the author himself, and feels a real affinity for what is happening in spite of two centuries gap in time.

exhibition will run until December 19, 2010.

Source: thm-museum.ru