Art & Film: Hogarth/Kubrick
From the canvas to the cinema.
David Liu | 23 July 2012
A Rake’s Progress (William Hogarth, 1735; oil on canvas)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
To realize the iconic candle-lit interiors of Barry Lyndon, Kubrick looked to the works of William Hogarth, specifically the decadence associated with the latter’s A Rake’s Progress series. Kubrick based his screenplay for the film on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray, who himself drew inspiration from “that keen and brave look with which William Hogarth regarded the world.”
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