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William Blake: Visionary Through Jan. 14, 2024, at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles; 310-440-7300; getty.edu. A correction was made on Dec. 30, 2023 ...
William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.
William Blake, The Lovers’ Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827, pen, ink and watercolor, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery William Blake died on August 12, 1827.
William Blake was a British Old Masters artist who was born in 1757. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir.Numerous key galleries and museums ...
William Blake, “Albion’s Angel rose / Europe A Prophecy” (1794–1821), relief-etching, printed in color, with hand coloring, and heightened with gold c. 1821; The Fitzwilliam Museum ...
Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study.
William Blake, an engraving from Illustrations of the Book of Job (1825) Courtesy John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller In a very real sense, there is no such thing as “contemporary” art.
Left: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Infant Joy (ca, 1825). Photo: Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Right: Thomas Phillips, Portrait of William Blake (1807).
You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. ... Blake sought to marry his art with his poetry and unleash it on the world.
William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...