William Blake
(1757 - 1827) |
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Art Work
| Name: |
William Blake |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
London, England |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1757 |
| Death: |
1827 |
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Quick Facts
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| Medium: |
engraving |
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| Style: |
realism, historical narratives |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Illustration
Engraver
Draughtsman |
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Biography
| William Blake artwork, due to their idiosyncratic and unorthodox nature, was largely unappreciated in his own lifetime. The knowledge Blake gained from working as an engraver enabled him to produce his own work in which he surrounded one of his poems with his own hand-colored illustration. His social and political conscience railed against the prevailing academic painting of the eighteenth century. He saw it as representing all that he came to despise about the rational, materialistic age in which he found himself. |
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