The final group of charcoal drawings brings disaster and redemption, with increasingly rich detail and symbolism.
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The first group of charcoal drawings traces the man’s life as an adult, from solitude in a vast forest, to a bacchanalian orgy.
The ‘divine whirlwind’ seems distinctive of Blake. This traces its origin, and his development of this visionary image.
This completes the 18 oil paintings. The series continues with another 16 charcoal drawings.
The first of 4 articles looking at an extraordinary narrative series of 34 paintings, many of them quite beautiful.
Classified a Symbolist, his style was uniquely visionary. Here are some of the masterpieces of Symbolism, which still inspire today.
The visual tradition of a stairway to heaven appears quite recent. I propose that Blake was its originator.
Job being smitten by boils, a Count left to starve to death, the ghost of a flea, and one of Blake’s most complex and enigmatic paintings: true genius.
How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.
His oils and pastels were rich in colour, full of flowers and light, and radical visions even by today’s standards.
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