William Hogarth
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When researching portraits for my essay I came across the work of William Hogarth. His paintings were at the heart of the 18th century creative bloom. His style of work was called 'modern morality'. He believed that art should have moral as well as aesthetic qualities and tried to bring this into all the work he produced. This style of work developed into the genre of cartoons centuries later.
He refused to flatter the subject, choosing to paint exactly what he saw. Within my images I want to flatter my subject, within fashion imagery I don't see why a model shouldn't be flattered because the purpose of the image is to sell the clothes they are wearing.
The line of beauty
According to this theory, S-shaped curved lines signify liveliness and activity and excite the attention of the viewer as contrasted with straight lines, parallel lines, or right-angled intersecting lines, which signify stasis, death, or inanimate objects.
The S shaped line as a a virtual boundary between objects and does not define the beauty of the entire composition, but parts of it.
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