mercredi 28 mai 2014

Paintings Of William Blake

By Darren Hartley


Among the art from the Romantic period, William Blake paintings are considered to be among the most original. As a boy, William studied art under the tutelage of Henry Pars. The next five years saw him as an apprentice to a commercial engraver in the person of James Basire. From there, he entered the Royal Academy School for further studies on engraving. William was 22 years old.

The early William Blake paintings, including Nature Revolves, but Man Advances, were a result of his private study of medieval and Renaissance art. William sought to emulate the example of artists such as Raphael, Michaelangelo and Durer. The objective was to produce timeless, Gothic art, infused with Christian spirituality and created with poetic genius.

The 1790s saw William take on his most ambitious work as a visual artist in a series of 12 large color prints. These William Blake paintings of iconic designs were distinguished by their massive size. Many of the print subjects function in pairs and drawn from the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton and Newton.

The description given to the technique used in William Blake paintings was fresco. It is in monotype form. It used a combination of oil and tempera paints with paints. Flat surfaces, such as copperplates and millboards, were where the designs were painted on. The rareness and uniqueness of the impressions were a consummation from finishing the designs in ink and watercolours.

Because William believed that the Bible comprised the basis the basis of true art, he concentrated on making a series of Bible illustrations from 1799 to 1809. These William Blake paintings consisted of about 50 tempura paintings and more than 80 watercolor paintings.

The trajectory that William Blake paintings took as far as development is concerned is towards the inner self. He concentrated on the journeys that the mind appears to take through its imagination. Physically, William never travelled outside of Britain except for a brief period on the southern coast of England.




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