Focus on: Hogarth

William Hogarth is best known for his series of paintings of 'modern moral subjects', of which he sold engravings on subscription. In works such as 'Marriage A-la-Mode', a -series of six pictures that satirize upper class 18th century society while warning of the disastrous results of marrying for money.
Hogarth used humour as a means to lampoon the more pretentious aspects of his own society while making a plea for better behaviours. Les well known are his history paintings, his aesthetic theories published in 1753 as the ‘Analysis of Beauty', his work for charity and his portraiture. In this one-day course we look at all these aspects of Hogarth’s career and look at how his work reflects the society of eighteenth-century London in which he lived and worked.