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    William Hogarth: 88 Drawings & Studies
    William Hogarth: 88 Drawings & Studies
    William Hogarth: 88 Drawings & Studies
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    William Hogarth: 88 Drawings & Studies

    By Raya Yotova

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    The book, being a collection of 88 drawings, is a good sample for a large number of artist's great work, and for those who want to know more about William Hogarth’s drawing. Actually it is a good book for those who like to study more about art: 88 sketches in a book is not a big amount of picture in a picture book, but it is still very useful for those who like drawing and want to study something from other great masters’ sketches.


     William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", perhaps best known being his moral series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".


    Hogarth was born in London into a poor middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship where he specialized in engraving. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts; an event that is thought to have informed William's paintings and prints with a hard edge. His work was influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving.


    Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation.


     The book is also good for library collection, and will be helpful for someone doing drawing studies. Reproductions are good for the richness of color. Comprehensive and the images are of good quality considering the electronic format. It's like a really good study catalog with references, perfect for learning about line, shading and composition rather than a coffee table book. This book provided the tools needed to elevate your drawing ability to a higher level and teaches how to draw both realistically and beautifully. It steps back into the best and reveals how the old masters illustrated and sculpted.


     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    William Hogarth: 88 Drawings & Studies

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      William Hogarth - Raya Yotova

      sculpted.

      Drawings

      Study of a Female Nude

      Graphite and black chalk, heightened with white chalk on medium, slightly textured, 256 x 435 mm

      The drawing is a preliminary study for the first plate of The Four Stages of Cruelty.

      In the Analysis of Beauty Hogarth noted that the human frame hath more of its parts composed of serpentine-lines than any other object in nature, and wrote at length of the importance of studying the human body. Although Hogarth was actively involved in the education of artists at his own St. Martin's lane Academy during the 1730s and 1740s, he came to doubt the value of such drawing exercises. He later recorded that he had begun copying in the usual way, and had learnt by practice to do it with tolerable exactness until it occur'd to me that there were many disadvantages attended going on so well continually copying Prints and Pictures...may in even drawing after the life at academys...it is possible to know no more of the original when the drawing is finish'd than before it was begun. Hogarth regarded a highly-developed visual memory as a more valuable tool for the artist than drawing from life, and his adherence to this precept is indicated by the rarity of such studies by him. Hogarth is probably best known for the prints of Modern Moral Subjects, which he designed and engraved,

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