William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye / ?Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the ...
My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...
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William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...
Possessing an ethereal delicacy, at first seemingly naïve, but in actuality hinting at divine depths, William Blake’s paintings are truly visionary. But as respected as the English poet and painter ...
William Blake, “The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind,” from ‘Illustrations of the Book of Job’ (1825) (published 1826), Engraving on India paper chine collé on wove paper (courtesy of the Grand ...
This etching of a small face may be one of William Blake's earliest engravings. © Bodleian Libraries / University of Oxford Experts have discovered that doodles ...
If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...
William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...
Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles William Blake is an American artist who was born in 1991. Numerous key galleries ...
The 19th-century poet William Blake wrote an unforgettable line in “Auguries of Innocence” denouncing the infringement on freedom: A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all heaven in a rage. Since it was ...