Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good Sep 5, 2008
Hirst's gift, when it's with him, is for black comedy, William Hogarth meets Stanley Kubrick work that's part deadpan joke, part dead serious utterance about mortality and decay. The piece that first made him famous, an open-jawed shark in a tank of formaldehyde titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, offered a giant beast of prey as a belligerent correlative for a universally suppressed anxiety. (Time.com)
A Beryl of Laughs! Life-affirming painter Beryl Cook passes away at 81 May 29, 2008
As a result, her work has been compared to the great 18th-century English painter and satirist William Hogarth - 'but without the darkness. Beryl Cook 'Twins. (Daily Mail)
Fishermen seek elusive bluefin tuna Jan 23, 2008
The state of the bluefin is not good, said a leading expert on the fish, William Hogarth, an administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who is past chairman of the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries. He is also past chairman of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a multinational group focused on commercial bluefin interests. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
2007 in the arts Dec 29, 2007
The year started with William Hogarth at Tate Britain - there was not only the pleasure of his teeming, wicked, cartoonish storytelling, but also plenty of proof, if any were really needed, that he could handle paint with brilliance. Bookending 2007 at Tate Modern was Louise Bourgeois. (Guardian Unlimited)
Prof compares Gin Lane and Binge Street Sep 10, 2007
Street scenes on a 21st century Saturday night are on a par with the scenes of drunken depravity depicted by artist William Hogarth when he engraved Gin Lane. The artist s work reflects contemporary concerns about the state of society. (ic Wales)
More than words: Britain embraces the graphic novel Aug 22, 2007
LONDON: For a country that prides itself on its visual satire, and that has produced such celebrated social and political cartoonists as William Hogarth, George Cruickshank and George du Maurier of Punch magazine, Britain's approach to the comic art form has been, until lately, distinctly lackluster. Comic art from Batman to the New Yorker funnies forms a cultural reference point in the United States; in France the "bande dessin?e" has established status as a neuvi. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Gin gets a tonic Jun 6, 2007
Gin's popularity soon spiralled out of control, however, spawning the ugly years of gin madness captured by the artist William Hogarth (hence the nickname, mother's ruin), when London alone produced 14 gallons a year per citizen. Legislation and taxation eventually curbed the "rotgut merchants", who peddled roughly distilled gin, replacing them with companies run by "gentleman distillers", such as Bombay, which is still making gin to a 1761 recipe. (Guardian Unlimited)
Caricature artist skewers politicians, mall rats - between fairs May 24, 2007
He is a caricature artist, whose work has earned him recognition within the pages of the online art dictionary, ArtLex, following luminaries such as the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth and France's famous, 19th-century political cartoonist, Honore Daumier. It was an example of Klemke's political work that grabbed my attention. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
The home front May 19, 2007
Paintings of William Hogarth. Just William by Richmal Crompton. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Rake's Progress Apr 26, 2007
The title is taken from a series of eight William Hogarth paintings from 1732-1733 depicting the demise of Tom Rakewell, a cheeky chappie who lands in hell after blowing his inheritance on boozing and whoring. Here, the rake is Vivian Kenway (Rex Harrison), a rich kid who causes havoc after succumbing to the charms of wine and women. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hogarth's Harlots, Libertines Parade in London: Martin Gayford Feb 8, 2007
William Hogarth (1697-1764) could be seen as the great-great-grandfather of Britart, and of much else besides. Upwardly Mobile. (Bloomberg)
Finding the fun and frolics in Hogarth Feb 7, 2007
William Hogarth was a high-spirited chronicler of extraordinary times, as Tate Britain's hugely entertaining show demonstrates ... Poor William Hogarth ... Born in London in 1697, William Hogarth was the son of a scholar from the north of England whose attempt to establish a coffee house where only Latin was spoken landed him in the Fleet prison, where he spent four years as a bankrupt. (Telegraph.co.uk)
- Adrian Searle: Hogarth can't paint, but who cares? Feb 6, 2007
William Hogarth was a printmaker, a genre painter, a satirist, a portraitist (or "phizmonger" as he sometimes put it), a history painter and a painter of conversation pieces. He was a polemicist and theorist, and the director of his own art school. (Guardian Unlimited)
Berlin films, Nixon mementos, other masters Berlin International Film Festival Jan 29, 2007
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was the foremost British artist of the first half of the 18th century. Best known as a satirist, he also excelled at portraiture and other, more respectable genres. (Boston Globe)
Tunnel vision Jan 23, 2007
William Hogarth did not like the French. In The Four Times of Day: Noon, the first great British artist painted dandified French immigrants coming out of a Huguenot church in London, all done up in ribbons and lace, simpering. (Guardian Unlimited)
Sights to see this winter Jan 4, 2007
William Hogarth The most comprehensive Hogarth show for more than 30 years, with over 200 works. Hogarth (1697-1764) depicted corrupt, raddled, gin-soaked, wormy old England at its worst. (Guardian Unlimited)
