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Painter William Hogarth rejected artifice to create a new picture of London. |
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In a series of paintings from 1736 entitled Four Times Of The Day, |
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Hogarth paints London as a divided city, where high society rubbed shoulders with London's chaotic grimy truths. |
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It begins on a freezing morning in Covent Garden. |
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An affluent lady makes her way to church past drunken revellers staggering home from the night before. |
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She is oblivious to the huddle of beggars and whores warming themselves by the fire. |
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At noon, the notorious slum district of St Giles is a divided world. |
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On the left, a group of fashionable Huguenot immigrants pour out of the French church. |
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On the other side of the street are a group of well fed but slovenly English peasants. |
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The only thing that connects these two worlds is a dead cat that lies across the kerb. |
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