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...William Hogarth invented the panorama of social class as a subject in English painting. Rowlandson, who was eight when Hogarth died, continued the tradition, with an equal gusto but greater humor. The dark side of Hogarth, his capacity for moral rage, is largely missing in Rowlandson, and his interest in art theory is entirely absent. The biggest difference of all was that Rowlandson had none of Hogarth's ambition for major categories of art, not just history painting, but oil painting itself. He was perfectly content with pen and watercolor. But his mastery of them was complete, and it shows...
Judith E. Stein, curator of the Grooms show that started its national tour two years ago at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, sets him up as a real satirist. With a "keen political sense," she claims in her catalog introduction, "Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honore Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case...
...careers the pair drew spiffing images of political figures for publications ranging from Britain's scurrilous Private Eye to the New York Times. These days, working in a converted banana warehouse along the London docks, the international lampooners produce what might best be described as the Muppets seen through Hogarth's eyes...
...first major production he designed was the 1975 Glyndebourne version of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, its libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Hockney, never embarrassed about paying homage to his aesthetic hearth gods, did the whole thing in the manner of Hogarth's engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each...
There can be no doubt about who held the power in the Dickens' doomed household. The prodigiously energetic writer had been happy with his pretty wife Catherine Hogarth in the early years of their marriage. But he became disenchanted and finally furious with her as she grew fat and listless. A few years after the birth of their tenth child in 1852, he moved out, taking all but the oldest of the children with him, as he had a legal right to do. The scandal caused by his action was compounded when Dickens took the extraordinary step of publishing...