Selasa, 03 Juni 2014

The World Of William Blake Paintings

By Darren Hartley


William Blake paintings rank among the most original visual arts of the Romantic era. William first studied art as boy, at the drawing academy of Henry Pars. He served a five year apprenticeship with the commercial engraver James Basire before entering the Royal Academy School as an engraver at the age of twenty-two.

William's private studying of medieval and Renaissance art resulted to the early romantic William Blake paintings. One of them was Nature Revolves, but Man Advances. Emulating his idols, Raphael, Michaelangelo and Durer, his dream was to product timeless, Gothic art that spoke of Christian spiritualism completed with a stroke of 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.

There were about 50 tempera paintings and more than 80 watercolors completed from 1799 to 1890. These William Blake paintings from that period were a series of Bible illustrations concentrating on Old Testament prefigurations of Christ, the life of Christ and apocalyptic subjects from the Book of Revelation.

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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