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    William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates
    William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates
    William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates
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    William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates

    By Maria Peitcheva

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    William Blake was English artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet, one of the most remarkable figures of the Romantic period. In art as in life Blake was an individualist who made a principle of nonconformity. He had a prejudice against painting in oils on canvas and experimented with a variety of techniques in colour 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 concealed and set himself the impossible task of creating a visual symbolism for the expression of his spiritual visions.
    To most of his contemporaries Blake seemed merely an eccentric, and his genius was not generally recognized until the second half of the 19th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Peitcheva
    Release dateMay 9, 2016
    ISBN9786050434033
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      William Blake Drawings - Maria Peitcheva

      William Blake

      Drawings: Colour Plates

      By Maria Peitcheva

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      William Blake Drawings: Colour Plates

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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

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