William Hogart: Yuri Astakhov

William Hogart, the English painter and the XVIII century schedule, is most famous in that he created his own critical-mocking direction in household painting and, one of the few prominent practitioners, outlined his views on art in an interesting work analysis of beauty. The artist began independent work by an illustrator of books and a master for the manufacture of posters, and also wrote portraits. But the most glory to the artist was brought by household compositions and group portraits adjacent to genre painting. Hoart’s originalness was that on his canvases he began to take out a social vice, an anecdotal case, more prickly, sins and sins performed in society. So the cycles of paintings appeared – a quarry of sluts, a quarry of a libertine, a fashionable marriage. And such works as a series of elections and some others, with a slight correction and today, would sound quite relevant. Additional popularity was brought to him by their engravings, which were executed according to their genre paintings, in large quantities diverged by …

Author
Astakhov Yuri
Editor
Zhukova Lyudmila
Publisher
White City, 2017