A Study Of William Hogarth’s Painting Art And Its Moral Meaning

William Hogarth(1697--1764)was an English painter,copperplate artist and art theorist who won international fame.He is often referred to as the "father of English painting".At the beginning of the 18 th century,Hogarth broke the monopoly of the British painting world by foreign painters.He created a new form of painting,which gave full play to the aesthetic characteristics of static,writing and moving painting in his creation,and used realistic and delicate painting methods.A series of "modern moral theme" paintings and other social genre paintings and satires that show the malpractices of The Times by telling life stories of the present.At this point,the subject of portrait painting for the court nobles gradually declined,while genre painting rose to prominence,and the British native painting began to prosper.Hogarth is good at expressing his creative ideas and artistic thoughts with his unique sharp and rich literary and dramatic painting language.Many of his works are full of profound moral implication and profound instructive significance.By carding and studying Hogarth’s painting creation,we can infer the mental state of the figures and the context of the story through the images,movements,expressions and other details of the figures in the picture,so as to understand the social phenomenon and realistic significance revealed by the painter.By studying the images with moral meaning,this paper interprets the emotional expression and inner spirit of metaphor in Hogarth’s works,and experiences the freshness and sensitivity brought by it.Hogarth’s pictures are always full of exuberant vitality,ironic spirit and profound implication,with rich emotions.This is the spirit of the current artists to pursue the connotation of painting is also an indispensable element in artistic creation.This paper first from the era and social background of Hogarth and Hogarth’s painting experience for elaboration,further combined with subjective factors and objective reasons to discuss the formation of Hogarth’s painting style,to explore the family changes,painting historical status quo,satirical literature and drama performance on his painting style;Secondly,it interprets Hogarth’s painting artistic language and intuitively analyzes the artistic characteristics of Hogarth’s painting by the painting subject matter,composition and the shaping of characters.Finally,focus on analyzing the moral implication contained in Hogarth painting art,reveal the connotation and significance of Hogarth painting art.