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Anthony van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck
A Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Sou...
Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Lorentz
A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical ex...
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American author and humorist, often called The Father of American Literature
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transu...
Hogarth's anti-progress: how the father of British painting went missing from our galleries

Hogarth's anti-progress: how the father of British painting went missing from our galleries

theguardian.com

It is 250 years since William Hogarth died, so I decided to visit him. I set out to Tate Britain to see his pugnacious self-portrait, painted in 1745. Hogarth depicts himself as the archetypal British painter, tougher, more streetwise and more witty than all those European daubers whose works were coveted by the aristocrat collectors of his day.You can see those continental masters, adeptly parodied, cluttering the walls of a noble mansion in the first painting in his visual narrative Marriage à-la-Mode, at the National Gallery. Medusa’s head and a slathering of nudes hang in dimly lit magnificence as a marriage settlement is brokered between a noble in need of cash and a merchant who wants to give his family blue blood. All that posh art, for Hogarth, is a kind of moral poison, whose corrupting cynicism helps bring about the impotence, adultery, duelling, syphilis and deaths that unfold in the next five scathing satirical paintings.Before Hogarth, there was not really any such thing as British art. There was art made in Britain, by such great European masters as Rubens and Van Dyck. But it was Hogarth who created the idea of a British school, a British style. This...

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