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    William Blake Drawings
    William Blake Drawings
    William Blake Drawings
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    William Blake Drawings

    By Richard Donaldson

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    William Blake was English Romantic artist, draftsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet. He possessed visionary powers and in art as in life was an individualist who made a standard of nonconformity. Blake had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with a variety of techniques in color printing, illustration, and tempera. His work as an artist is almost impossible to divorce from the complex philosophy expressed also through his poetry. He believed that the visible world of the senses is an unreal envelope behind which the spiritual reality is masked. He refused the easy path of abstraction and foggy suggestion, remaining content with nothing less than the maximum of clarity and perfection. To most of his generation Blake seemed merely a strange, and his genius was not in general recognized until the second half of the 19th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Donaldson
    Release dateJan 18, 2015
    ISBN9786050349658
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      Absolutely beautiful. I loved the choice of beautiful and spiritual art by Blake, some of which I had not seen and the commentary. Easy read . Thank you.

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    William Blake Drawings - Richard Donaldson

    William Blake Drawings

    By Richard Donaldson

    Foreword and Annotations by Richard Donaldson

    First Edition

    Copyright © 2015 by Richard Donaldson

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    William Blake Drawings

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    Foreword

    William Blake was English artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet, one of the most remarkable figures of the Romantic period. From childhood he possessed visionary powers, and the engraving of Joseph of Arimathea, done at the age of 16, shows him already using a personal symbolism to express his mystical philosophy. His apprenticeship (1772-79) to the engraver James Basire, for whom he made drawings of the monuments in Westminster Abbey and other London churches, led him to a dose study of Gothic art and intensified his love of linear design and formal pattern. In 1779 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, but his relations with Reynolds were painful; later he was to find more sympathetic spirits in Stothard, Flaxman, Fuseli, and Barry.

    During the 1780s Blake worked as a commercial engraver,

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