ART 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Cuckold, Syphilis, Financial Planner
Art 102 - Lecture 23
4/5/2017
Painting: Breakfast scene from marriage a la mode
Artist: Hogarth
Year: 1745
Format: oil on canvas
Hogarth
- among early social commentators
- uses art to show problems in society
- portrait
- painting inside a painting
- portrait leaning on books
- abstract line: intellect
- dog: intense
- scar and eyes: intense person, pugnacious (dog)
- designed art to be easily transferable to print format
- sold many prints
Cont from Monday
- Diderot liked Chardin’s art
- art should have social purpose
- not only be used to appeal to upper classes
- Chardin’s colors show humility: white, black, brown
- The toilet scene
- where people are groomed
- lawyer in scene
- little girl playing with statue
- sign means cuckold and cheated on
- husband dies
- lawyer dies
- woman dies
- daughter shows sign of syphilis
- father takes ring off finger
series comes full circle
Painting
- part of series
- marriage was a business
- sir squanderly
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