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A comprehensive collection of paintings by William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker considered a seminal figure in the history of the Romantic Age. Explore his diverse and symbolically rich œuvre, influenced by the Bible, the French and American Revolutions, and his own mystical views.
- British
- November 28, 1757
- London, United Kingdom
- August 12, 1827
William Blake (Londres, 28 de novembro de 1757 — Londres, 12 de agosto de 1827) foi um poeta, tipógrafo e pintor inglês, sendo sua pintura definida como pintura fantástica. Blake viveu num período significativo da história, marcado pelo iluminismo e pela Revolução Industrial na Inglaterra.
- British
- London, United Kingdom
Learn about William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker of the Romantic Age. Explore his diverse and symbolic works, influenced by imagination, religion, and politics.
Principais características de seu estilo artístico: • Abordou vários temas religiosos (cristãos) em muitas de suas obras (pinturas e livros). • Usou cores vivas em suas pinturas. • Presença, em suas pinturas, de cenas e personagens imaginários. • Temas míticos e fantásticos.
- Childhood
- Early Training
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- Later Work
- The Legacy of William Blake
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William Blake was born in Soho, London, into a respectable working-class family. His father James sold stockings and gloves for a living, while his mother, Catherine Hermitage, looked after the couple's seven children, two of whom died in infancy. William, a strong-willed boy and an evident prodigy from a young age, often absconded from school to w...
The drawing academy turned out to be too expensive, and Blake was forced to quit after four years. It was intended that he would become apprentice to a master engraver but - so the story goes - when his father took him to meet his prospective employer William Ryland, the young Blake refused, declaring that "it looks as if he will live to be hanged!...
In 1795, Blake began a series known as the Large Colour Prints, depicting subjects from the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare. Though Blake was never an isolated figure - he socialized widely, and attached himself to various cultural circles in London, through friends such as Henry Fuseli and James Barry - Raine notes that he was not an "easy man soci...
Blake lived in Soho, the neighborhood of his birth, for almost his entire life, very rarely travelling. But despite this lack of worldliness, he made himself a highly cultured man, acquiring a large collection of classical art prints, for example. After years of poverty, he was forced to sell his print collection, but in 1818 Blake's financial fort...
William Blake is generally considered one of the great artistic polymaths, not just one of the finest poets in the English language, but also one of Britain's most revolutionary visual artists: the critic Jonathan Jones describes him as "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". Blake is also remembered for the intricate and uniq...
Explore the life and work of William Blake, a British poet, painter, and printmaker who integrated writing and painting into a single creative process. Learn about his innovative techniques, his mythical universe of Urizen, Los, and Orc, and his epic poem sequences Songs of Innocence and Experience.
- British
- November 28, 1757
- London, England
- August 12, 1827
A biography and analysis of the life and art of William Blake, one of the greatest poets and original visual artists of the Romantic era. Learn about his printmaking, painting, and illustrations to the Bible, Shakespeare, and other sources. See examples of his relief etching, tempera paintings, and watercolors.
Signature. William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
