Word: hogarths
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...manner were picked up by Rubens when he visited Rome, became a feeder line for the rhetoric and exuberance of the baroque artists. The Carracci's love of the local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed in on. Their reordering of the classical tradition was carried on by Poussin and the neoclassicism of Ingres; their concern for formal harmonies is still alive in cubism and 20th century modern architecture...
...Hogarth's Progress, by Peter Quennell, provided a guided tour of 18th century London, together with a biography of that city's great "phizmonger," William Hogarth. A lusty, busty period and the fine artist who did most to celebrate it got something like their...
...Mirror. London in Hogarth's age was a smallish city, as statistics go now. It was a place where the procession to the pillory of a popular prostitute (like Moll Hervey, who was set up at the Blackamoor's Head and Sadler's Arms in Hedge Lane) or an unpopular madam (like Mother Needham of Park Place, St. James's) might bring out a bigger crowd than a coronation. Londoners were a people who had yet to regard understatement as a virtue or overdrinking as a vice...
...wives in those unenlightened times more than Dr. Kinsey concedes to the present. It was not a mealymouthed age; "nasty stinking breath" was the King's English of the second George for "halitosis." Above all, it was always tough-minded and could look at itself in the mirror. Hogarth made the mirror...
...Genius. One of those inevitable accidents which mark the life of a genius turned Hogarth into the delineator of his age, or in his own phrase, its "master phiz-monger." He was just another London apprentice (his job was incising coats of arms on the gentry's silver plate), wandering about town like so many young men, knowing himself to be a genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable...