Ariadna Zuniga
A reception to unveil the new exhibit of William Hogarth engravings and etchings at the Pierce College Art Gallery will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tonight.
The exhibit, from a donation by Sherman Oaks resident Ruth Globersonis is entitled “Life and Times in Hogarth’s London.”
Forty of Hogarth’s (1697-1764) prints will be shown through April 19.
There will also be an accompanying lecture today at 4 p.m. in Art room 3300 by Professor Davivd Kunzle of UCLA.
This gallery showing will also include a series of well known pieces such as: Rake’s Progress, Harlot’s Progress, Marriage A-la-Mode, The Times and Hudibras, according to Art Professor Constance Moffatt, who, with her students, is responsible for setting up the exhibit.
She added that this gallery is collaborative with the image on the invitation, which is borrowed from the collection at CSUN.
In preparation for the event, all the items that have been acquired were also to help the event attempt to present historical context for the engravings.
“We are attempting to present as full picture as possible of the eighteenth century milieu in which Hogarth lived through the installation and written background,” said Moffatt.
Hogarth’s engravings are closely linked with the era in which he lived, capturing events that art viewers can share now after many years.
“More important, they depict the sloth and degeneracy of the upper class, the dangers of wanton behavior, politics, religion, manners and taste and the squalor of the lower classes,” said Moffatt.
Hogarth’s perspective can’t be modified or changed because within his art work he still speaks to many viewers.
The costumes are from the Pierce Theater Department and the antiques are lent by Wertz Brothers in West L.A. and Zulia’s Antiques in Canoga Park. Mat board provided by Continental Art in Reseda.
Two complete series of Hogarth, “A Harlot’s Progress” (above) and “A Rake’s Progress,” will be displayed along single and works of art starting tonight at the Pierce Art Gallery from 5 ()
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