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 ...
A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem has come up for sale at Christie’s auction house, highlighting the poet and ...
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 ...
What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, what’s the use of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, and the rise of fascism? Rather than ...
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, ...
Although the British visionary, poet, and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was moderately successful as an engraver, people thought his art was bizarre, that his poetry was gibberish, and that he was ...
You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (flourished ...
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A print of English poet William Blake’s most famous poem “The Tyger” sold at auction for £228,600 (RM1.25 million) yesterday, ...
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 ...
William Blake, poet and artist extraordinaire, is buried in the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. just north of St Paul's Cathedral, and pretty close to the grave of John Bunyan. And at some point Iron ...