#williamblake
William Blake’s Ancient of Days illuminating St Paul’s cathedral - it’s worth getting chucked out of the Tate Modern’s top floor for (“Private event” my anglo-persian tush…)
Blake suffered a lot from depression, fell out with a lot of people and probably never had the recognition he deserved. He was buried in an unmarked grave. This was his final work, it’s on for four nights from 16:30 onwards.
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#art #stpaulscathedral #williamblake #ancientofdays #artwork #church #artoftheday #artistic #artporn #artlovers #artlover #artlife #artlove #artgram #stpauls #london #londoncitylife #londoncalling #hiddenlondon #night #skyline #thames #cathedral #art_spotlight #artista #motivation #inspiration #depression #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness (at Tate Modern)
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To create a little flower is the labour of Ages.William Blake
Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet, William Blake, 1821,Tate
Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924
Size: image: 38 x 74 mm
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-remonstrates-with-colinet-a00112
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There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the Land & their Father gave them Inheritance among their Brethren, William Blake, 1825,Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings
It is not enough to be saved. The redeemed must now show the way to others. This is accomplished by means of the arts. Job is relating his experiences to his three daughters-Poetry, Painting and Music. They are enriched by their inheritance of Job’s experiences, for the benefit of their spiritual brothers. Aesthetic creation is a lower form of mystical ecstasy, the Whirlwind, which is depicted immediately above Job. Depictions of the disasters that befell him are visible in panels to the left and right. Since he is now sacrificing himself for mankind, Job faces outward in the cruciform position of the God, seen in the panel above him. The two texts in the upper margin (Psalm cxxxis) state that inspiration comes from God and is to be found everywhere. The floor consists of a great circle formed into a mosaic pattern with many smaller interlacing circles. This represents the communion of the heaven of art. The inscribed portions being contained in one great circle, who is the One Man, Jesus himself. Art is the sacrificial wine of the Eucharist. In the margins are fruiting grapevines and instruments of music. The miniscule angels who embrace on the corners repeat this communion of joy.
Size: 8 ½ x 6 5/8 in. (21.59 x 16.83 cm) (sheet)
Medium: Engraving
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46455/
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Illustration to Milton`s On the Morning of Christ`s Nativity, 1809,William Blake
Medium: watercolor
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Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims, William Blake, 1809 (printed later),Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings
Size: 14 x 37 ¾ in. (35.56 x 95.89 cm) (sheet)
Medium: Engraving with chine appliqué
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/64393/
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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off…, William Blake, 1825,Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings
Job’s three friends arrive, left feet first, to console him. But their sympathies are such that the term “Job’s comforters” have become an ironic commonplace: “Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies.” In fact, their arguments constitute Job’s third trial. The sun has now set. In the margin, Job and his wife stand beneath sterile trees. They are still shepherds of Innocence, enduring their sorrows of Experience with resignation.
Size: 8 ½ x 6 5/8 in. (21.59 x 16.83 cm) (sheet)
Medium: Engraving
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46458/
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Thenot Remonstrates with Colinet, William Blake, 1821,Tate
Presented by British Museum Publications Ltd 1977
Size: image: 38 x 74 mm
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-remonstrates-with-colinet-t02116
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“Thus did Job continually,”, William Blake, 1825,Harvard Art Museums: Prints
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Size: sheet: 36.4 x 28.6 cm (14 5/16 x 11 ¼ in.) plate: 19.8 x 16.5 cm (7 13/16 x 6 ½ in.)
Medium: Engraving on off-white wove paper
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257747
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Thenot and Colinet, William Blake, 1821,Tate
Presented by British Museum Publications Ltd 1977
Size: image: 61 x 83 mm
Medium: Wood engraving on paper
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-thenot-and-colinet-t02115
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“Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord,”, William Blake, 18th-19th century,Harvard Art Museums: Prints
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Size: 21.9 x 17.1 cm (8 5/8 x 6 ¾ in.)
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/257763
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Songs of Innocence: Title Page, William Blake, ca. 1825,Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints
Rogers Fund, 1917
Size: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
Medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and gold
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/347889
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Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece, William Blake, ca. 1825,Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints
Rogers Fund, 1917
Size: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
Medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and gold
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/347888
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