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Bitmap Image  |  1995-11-26  |  295KB  |  640x460  |  8-bit (130 colors)

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OCR: LIFE Hogarth, William (1697-1764). English painter and engraver who produced portraits and moralizing genre scenes, such as the series of prints "A Rake's Progress" (1735). His portraits are remarkably direct and full of character, for example, "Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants," from about 1750-55 (Tate Gallery, London). Hogarth was born in London and apprenticed to an engraver. He published "A Harlot's Progress," a series of six engravings in 1732. Other series followed, including "Marriage à la Mode" (1745), "Industry and Idleness" (1749) and "The Four Stages of Cruelty" (1751). In his book, "The Analysis of Beauty" Hogarth (1753), he attacked uncritical appreciation of the arts and proposed a double curved line as a key to visual beauty.

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