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- Hockney’s first visit to the United States, in the summer of 1961, provided the narrative for this semiautobiographical series.
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Mar 4, 2023 · The artist’s series of eight paintings called A Rake’s Progress tells the story of Tom Rakewell, a merchant’s son, who wastes all his money on activities like gambling and who suffers the consequences of his actions. Due to his decisions, Rakewell ultimately ends up in prison and in a psychiatric hospital.
Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera The Rake's Progress, with a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is loosely based on the story from Hogarth's paintings. In 1961, David Hockney created his own print edition version of The Rake's Progress; he has also created stage designs for the Stravinsky opera.
Technical imaging of the paintings that make up William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress c.1733–5 has uncovered changes the artist made to the compositions as he painted them. This paper examines these changes and looks at how they can help us understand the evolution of A Rake’s Progress from paintings to prints.
Technical examination of the paintings that make up William Hogarth’s series A Rake’s Progress c.1733–5 has brought new understandings of their making and materials. This paper explores this research and what it tells us about the artist’s working practice.
- Sex, booze and 18th-century Britain. If you ever needed proof that the sex, booze and a rock’n’roll lifestyle was not a twentieth century invention, you need look no further than the satirical prints of William Hogarth.
- A Rake’s Progress. These sly nods to the bad guys of the day not only made the prints hugely relevant and enjoyable to their target audience but it also made them incredibly popular.
- A fashionable life. By the next scene (“Surrounded by Artists and Professors,” above) Tom has already moved from his cozy, if slightly shabby family home into his new bachelor pad surrounded by a dance master, a music teacher, a poet, a tailor, a landscape gardener, a body guard and a jockey all offering their services to help Tom complete his fashionable lifestyle.
- A decadent decline. Tom’s decadent lifestyle does not last for long and by the third scene his sedan chair is intercepted by bailiffs as he is en route to the Queen’s birthday party.
A Rake’s Progress describes the moral and physical journey of its protagonist, Tom Rakewell, the son of a miserly City merchant. Hogarth presents the consequences of Tom’s moral choices; desertion, social climbing, extravagance and the sins of the flesh, as being shame, debt, degradation and ultimately madness followed by death.
Oct 14, 2023 · A Rake's Progress (1732-4) was a series of eight oil paintings that were preparatory works for engravings and prints portraying the downfall of the fictional Tom Rakewell.
