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Modern Two. Modern Two, formerly the Dean Gallery, in Edinburgh, is one of the two buildings housing the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, one of Scotland's national art galleries. It is operated by National Galleries Scotland. It is twinned with Modern One which lies on the opposite side of Belford Road.
Marriage A-la-Mode[1][fn 1] is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745, intended as a pointed skewering of 18th-century society. They show the disastrous results of an ill-considered marriage for money or social status, and satirize patronage and aesthetics. The pictures are held in the National Gallery in London.
Year. 1743. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 69.9 cm × 90.8 cm (27.5 in × 35.7 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Tête à Tête is the second canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode, painted by William Hogarth.
William Hogarth FRSA (/ ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ /; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip -like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", [2] and he is perhaps best ...
History. The first Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) opened in August 1960 in Inverleith House, a Georgian building set in the middle of Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden. In 1984 the SNGMA moved to the former premises of the John Watson's Institution on Belford Road in the west of the city, a large neo-classical building which was ...
Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 69.9 cm × 90.8 cm (27.5 in × 35.7 in) Location. National Gallery, London. Later engraving of the painting, mirrored and with a clearer reproduction of many figures. The Marriage Settlement is the first in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth, named ...
Dimensions. 69.9 cm × 90.8 cm (27.5 in × 35.7 in) Location. National Gallery, London. Detail. The Toilette, called The countess's morning levee on the frame, [ 1 ] is the fourth canvas in the series of six satirical paintings known as Marriage A-la-Mode painted by William Hogarth. The old earl has died, so the son is now the new earl, and his ...
Towner Eastbourne. Towner Eastbourne (formerly Towner Art Gallery) is an art gallery located in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on the south coast of England. In 2019, German artist Lothar Götz was chosen from a call out to design a mural for the building's exterior. Götz transformed the exterior walls of the gallery with his large-scale, colourful ...