Word: hogarth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic by Acquisition. Beaverbrook's biggest donation is not the museum but most of the 300-odd paintings hanging in it. Valued at $2,100,000, Beaverbrook's collection provides the gallery with a comprehensive sampling of British art from Hogarth to Francis Bacon, representative works of nearly all Canadian artists of stature, plus a scattered few paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn...
...Balint explains in Thrills and Regressions, published by London's Hogarth Press, his Greek polysyllables were devised after he had found, an earthy test for personality typing-how an individual reacts at an amusement park, or "fun-fair." The type that avoids the thrills of the roller coaster, whip and illusion rooms is an ocnophil, from a Greek verb meaning to shrink from or hang back. The opposite, or philobat ("one who loves to go places"), not only gets a kick out of these machines, but is the type that becomes a racing driver, stunt flyer, animal tamer, explorer...
...however, was singled out for comment: Jack Levine's controversial Welcome Home, which shows a bloated, translucent, two-star general banqueting with his friends. "It looks," said General Eisenhower, "like a lampoon more than art, as far as I am concerned." Nobody interrupted to invoke the shades of Hogarth, Goya or Daumier, so Ike went on to say that in the future, "I think I might have something to say if we have another exhibition anywhere." Possibly, "there ought to be one or two people" on the Government's selection boards "that, like most of us here...
...analysis of the motivations of one of its characters. "Satan in Paradise Lost," one exam perceived, "is what Milton would have liked to have been if he hadn't gone blind." But then, this bit of biographical lore doesn't seem so bad when compared with the identification of Hogarth as Beowulf's grandfather...
...could have been at further remove from the new-found refinement of the great country houses than Satirist William Hogarth, whose province was the raucous underside of London. Hogarth painted The Painter and His Pug as an unframed self-portrait, propped up by volumes of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, and intended it to be used as the frontispiece for his collected engraved works. Later, after he engaged in a ferocious political quarrel with John Wilkes and Charles Churchill (no kin), Hogarth issued a fresh impression. In it his portrait was replaced by a vitriolic caricature of "Bruiser" Churchill, drawn...