William Hogarth: A collection of 207 paintings (HD)

William Hogarth: A collection of 207 paintings (HD)
Description: "Hogarth was born in 1697 near the East End cattle market of Smithfield. His father, Richard Hogarth, made an unsuccessful attempt to open a Latin-speaking coffeehouse, which left the family bankrupt, Richard confined to Fleet Prison, and the young William fending for himself.
After apprenticing at a silver workshop, where he mastered the art of engraving, Hogarth opened his own print shop. The artist’s first widespread notice came with the publication of The South Sea Scheme (1721), ridiculing the greed and corruption of stock market speculators. A Harlot's Progress (1732) brought Hogarth tremendous success and celebrity, leading to a second morality series, A Rake's Progress (1734).
Throughout the 1730s and 1740s, the artist’s reputation grew and so did his interest in social and moral reform. Hogarth’s work took on a distinctly propagandist tone, directed at the urbanization of London and the city’s problems with crime, prostitution, gambling, and alcoholism.
Industry and Idleness (1747) was designed to encourage young boys to develop a strong Protestant work ethic and thus achieve success. Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751), directed at the widespread sale and consumption of alcohol, were followed by The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751), which condemned rampant acts of cruelty to animals.
Hogarth died in 1764 in his home in Leicester Fields, leaving behind an extraordinary legacy. Working almost entirely outside the academic art establishment, he revolutionized the popular art market and the role of the artist. Hogarth strived to create works of great aesthetic beauty but also ones that would help to make London a better city for future generations."
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[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Beautiful paintings and Portraits.

[@EVELCHAOS]

The detail in most of these works is nothing short of phenomenal. Paintings depicted within the painting, hidden animals and children, the pride of adornment by military figures. I have always loved and admired WH paintings and his engravings as well. But I am somewhat biased.

[@francoisebeylie2923]

I do like the woman playing hurdy gurdy, the black dog with beautiful eyes, and some others really funny. Some seem more "modern", I can't find the word because I don't speak english very well...Merci de nous montrer ces belles peintures.

[@kelor]

Learn from the Master: Micah 2:4 and 2:5 The toilette=the toy let. Why are the lots "to let" on the floor? And why is the westminster abbey depicted here, which happens to be in London SW 1, as the map in the man's hands shows? Maybe because it is the church of God (and congregation of believers)? Maybe the title of the other painting of this series "il bagno", indicates "ba"(bylonian) "gno" (sticism) as an allegation of adultery to christian faith? Maybe the other painting of the same series, "the marriage settlement" showing plans in the hands of an "architect", contemplating a new building is an allusion for the plans to build a new society even at the cost of peoples' rights and feelings, as depicted by the woman suffering (what a bride to be).. and her groom (such plans are always conceived and executed by the elite)?Such "forced marriages" for people are the only means to "build" a new society? In this case, peoples' lands could be an allegory for peoples' lives. And it goes without saying that "the future doesn't just happen, but is shaped by us" (the powerful), as recently declared Klaus Scwab.