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(2018) The Iron Giant
A tribute to the Iron Giant (1999), one of the best animated film ever,
with an of Hogarth and his giant metal friend. (#15,356)

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Why tweet a copy of Hogarth's Wilkes? It is so easy to find an image of his print on line, e.g., this one https://t.co/6vAhHKvvEw

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I finished this Iron Giant Commission a while back 🙂 16x20 canvas with acrylic paints. I just got it up on my website! I love this movie 💜

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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And a great self-promoter and propagandist - plenty of modern parallels. Somehow he and his supporters managed to turn Hogarth's caricature of him into something positive - "Wilkes and Liberty"

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Goya/Hogarth at gets glowing review in The :
'Goya's prints of war, madness and folly are founding masterpieces of modern art ... His nightmares were anticipated by Hogarth's ... groteque scenes ... This show compares these great printmakers.'

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It’s National Dog Day! I hope all of you dog owners pamper your pooch extravagantly 🐶

Here is Hogarth’s dog. Held by the Tate gallery "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character."

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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is by Rex Whistler for J Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Here's a Brobdingnagian dwarf pelting Gulliver with giant apples (1930). Whistler's exquisite & refined Baroque creations are reminiscent of Hogarth's elegant engravings. Also a magnificent muralist!

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It's and this week's word is intaglio: a print where the design is created by scraping away areas+inserting ink within the grooves created.
IMAGE: William Hogarth (1697-1764) False Perspective, 1753, etching on paper, On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site

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Here is the original print of John Wilkes made by Hogarth in 1763. There were many copies in all sorts of media. Hogarth was mocking Wilkes, but the image was used by Wilkes's supporters to promote the cause of liberty against oppressive government.

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Balanced herring and oversized mug – a bad mix!
Detail from William Hogarth’s 1751 engraving “Beer Street”. Gift of Dr. Paul Fritz to McMaster Museum of Art.

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ON NOW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition - the first to show and works together - features a hundred prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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today with the lovely spaniel in the back of ‘Girl with a Birdcage, said to be of the Stamford Family’ by

Possibly painted as a memorial to a deceased child - her pale complexion and handkerchief wrapped round her neck. 👼🏻

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Now at the Whitworth Manchester! :) Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. https://t.co/XVzZtbup95

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NOW OPEN: Prints of Darkness - & used their role as artists to reflect on dysfunctional European societies. Startlingly familiar to today's viewer in their content, their works cause us to turn our gazes on our own society & ourselves. https://t.co/FS8sTab3TB

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OPENS TOMORROW: Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil. This exhibition is the first to show and works together, and features 100 prints selected from the stellar collections of the Whitworth and https://t.co/rQackPqEDC

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