William Blake, Ancient of Days, 1764 Blake was a British poet, but experimented in the visual arts to illustrate his published works; dabbled a lot in printmaking. He believed that trying to exercise the masses was an exercise in futility.   Depicts religious subject matter in a very unique way; he’s not interested in the absolute power of the church, but rather a personal and subjective experience of spirituality.   Pictured; God creating the world (‘god set a compass on the surface of the deep)’. He imagined god as an architect.

William Blake, Ancient of Days, 1764

  • Blake was a British poet, but experimented in the visual arts to illustrate his published works; dabbled a lot in printmaking. He believed that trying to exercise the masses was an exercise in futility.  
  • Depicts religious subject matter in a very unique way; he’s not interested in the absolute power of the church, but rather a personal and subjective experience of spirituality.  
  • Pictured; God creating the world (‘god set a compass on the surface of the deep)’. He imagined god as an architect.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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