Title of Product:

Hogarth, Hockney and Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress

Image of the product:

Name of Author(s): Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Name of Producer: Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

Language/s of Product: Russian with an English version

Website of the product: www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/04/2006/hm4_1_133.html

Target Group: Scholars, teachers, students 11+

Overall Evaluation: good

Objectives & Structure:
The site is an introduction and description of an exhibition staged at the Hermitage in 2006 in conjunction with British Council and the PRO ARTE Institute.
It contains a short illustrated essay on William Hogarth and his influence on Stravinsky and Hockney.

Description of contents:
The site offers students the opportunity to make some interesting comparisons between Hogarth’s 18th century world and that the more recent past.
David Hockney began work on the Rake's Progress prints on his return from New York in 1961. This was his first suite of prints and was based on William Hogarth's suite of the same title, a moral tale of a squandered life told in eight copper-plate engravings published in 1735.
Comparisons can be made between 4 of Hogarth’s prints and 4 of Hockney’s, each of which can be enlarged for better study.
Images of the whole of Hockney’s ‘The Rakes Progress’ can be found at http://collection.britishcouncil.org/html by entering ‘Hogarth’ into the exhibition keyword search.

Evaluation and Comments:

Description of how the website can be used with the students::
Students can use this site individually or collectively as the start of a comparative study of narrative and satirical art that explores society and social change.

Comments::
A site to be studied after a basic knowledge of Hogarth’s work has been understood.

Evaluation Date: 30.06.08

Name of teacher: Jane Giles

Name of School: Trinity School

Country: UK

Subjects Taught: Art