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Two Views Of London; Canaletto and Hogarth offer conflicting visions.(William Hogarth)
Byline: William Underhill
The scene is a London park in the mid-18th century. Bewigged figures make formal conversation in the foreground. In the distance, a company of soldiers is drilling in perfect formation. A line of handsome, classical buildings stretches across the backdrop. Order prevails. This is the capital of a prosperous country with big aspirations: the city as depicted by Canaletto, the great Venetian artist, during a decade-long stay in England.
And now for something completely different: on a London side street within easy strolling distance of the park, a drunken and bare-breasted woman allows her baby to tumble from her arms. Just behind, a brawl is developing outside the distillery; the ramshackle houses are close to collapse. Sure, it's satire, but the detail screams of authentic knockabout city life. This is London as portrayed by William Hogarth, native British painter, printmaker, polemicist, patriot and occasional moralist.
Two artists; two utterly different views of a city and a century. Canaletto and Hogarth were exact contemporaries, both born in 1697, and spent a few years as neighbors in the artists' quarter of Soho. Though both mastered their own particular genres, they developed complementary visions of their time, which are rarely seen together. Now, in London, they can be. The first major exhibition of Hogarth's works in more than 30 years--already displayed to huge acclaim at the Louvre--opened last week at Tate Britain (to April 29), while "Canaletto in England" is showing at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (to April 15). For art lovers, it is an irresistible duel: the champion of robust British common sense going head-to-head with the onetime theatrical scene painter and master of Italian artifice.
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