William Blake, Remote by the Sea(laphamsquarterly.org)
77 points by occurrence 15 hours ago | 4 comments
- srean 13 hours agoBlake's and Durer's artwork are two of my favorites.
What I find so teasingly difficult to explain is that despite being so different there is some shared aesthetic value between them that I cannot quite pin down in words.
Perhaps their strong geometric undertones and a certain muscularity in them.
[-]- hammock 8 hours agoNon-“art first”, cosmological (in the religious sense), sketch-forward detail as principal expressive form… I mean one studied the other right? And the author of this piece wrote about Durer as well
- timoteostewart 7 hours agoAgree with your observation. Blake and Durer both worked in printmaking. I wonder if the processes and aesthetics there resulted in some detectable affinity between their works.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7 hours agoToss in some Bosch for flavor.
Those three guys could wipe the floor with most of modern art.
(The Blake painting is tucked away in an almost-attic of the now "Tate Britain" old building in a quiet out of the way street, while the "Tate Modern" blockhouse graces the Thames south bank, mostly filled with glitzy trash. So it goes.)
- s5300 7 hours ago[dead]