The Bench (Hogarth)

The Bench is the title of both a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, and a print issued by him in the same year. Unlike many of Hogarth's engravings produced from painted originals, the print differs considerably from the painting. It was intended as a demonstration of the differences between character painting, caricature and outré—developing on the theme he had begun to address in Characters and Caricaturas (his subscription ticket for Marriage à-la-mode)—but Hogarth was unhappy with the result as it showed only "characters", and he continued to work on the piece until his death.

Background

Hogarth had often been accused of being a caricaturist, but regarded this as a slur on his work. In his book on art, The Analysis of Beauty, Hogarth claimed that the critics had branded all his women as harlots and all his men as caricatures. He complained:

He had made an early attempt to address what he perceived as a mistake on the part of his critics with the subscription ticket for his 1743 series Marriage à-la-mode, on which he contrasted a number of his reproductions of classical caricatures – from Annibale Carracci, Pier Leone Ghezzi and Leonardo da Vinci – with his version of some Raphael characters (from the Cartoons) and a hundred of his own character profiles. After Hogarth's death the subscription ticket was reproduced as print in its own right, minus the subscription details for Marriage a-la-mode, and came to be known as Characters and Caricaturas (from the inscription Hogarth had added at the foot of the original).

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Bench

Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

Bench (furniture), a piece of furniture that typically offers seating for several people.

Workbench or lab bench, a place of work consisting of a table and perhaps places to keep an arrangement of tools and materials

Countertop

Arts

The Bench (2000 film), Danish film

The Bench (2007 film), a short film from The Northern Film School in the United Kingdom

The Bench (TV series), a BBC legal drama series set in a Welsh magistrate's court

The Bench (Hogarth), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth

Brands

Bench (British clothing brand)

Bench (Philippine clothing brand)

Business

Bench Accounting

Geology

Bench (geology), a long, relatively narrow strip of relatively level or gently inclined land of differing origins that is bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below it

Benches, steps cut into the side of open-pit mines

Law and politics

Bench (metonymy), certain people in a given context, associated with a particular seating area, especially in politics and law

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The Bench (2000 film)

The Bench (Danish: Bænken) is a 2000 Danish drama film directed by Per Fly.

Synopsis

An unemployed drunk hangs out at a public bench in the town centre with a group of like-minded souls, with no interests other than finding the money for the next drink. When a single mother moves into a neighbouring apartment he becomes involved in her troubles.

Cast

Jesper Christensen – Kaj

Marius Sonne Janischefska – Jonas

Stine Holm Joensen – Liv

Nicolaj Kopernikus – Stig

Jens Albinus – Kim

Sarah Boberg – Connie

Benjamin Boe Rasmussen – Bo

Holger Perfort – Pensionist

Awards

Bodil Award for Best Danish Film (2000)

Robert Award for Best Danish Film (2000)

External links

The Bench at the Internet Movie Database

The Bench (2000 film) in the Danish National Filmography

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California Golden Bears

The California Golden Bears is the nickname used for 30 varsity athletic programs and various club teams of the University of California, Berkeley. Referred to in athletic competition as California or Cal, the university competes in the NCAA's Division I primarily as a member of the Pac-12 Conference, and for a limited number of sports as a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). Over the course of the school's history, California has won team national titles in 13 men's and 3 women's sports and 96 team titles overall. Cal athletes have also competed in the Olympics for a host of different countries. Notable facilities used by the Bears include California Memorial Stadium (football) and Haas Pavilion (basketball and other indoor sports). Cal finished the 2010–11 athletic season with 1,219.50 points, earning third place in the Director's Cup standings, the Golden Bears' highest finish ever. Cal did not receive any points for its national championships in rugby and men's crew because those sports are not governed by the NCAA. Cal finished 12th in the 2014-15 standings.