Blake'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 1 days ago [-]
Non-“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 1 days ago [-]
Agree 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 1 days ago [-]
Toss 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.)
srean 1 days ago [-]
Thanks for introducing me to Bosch. I immediately recognised many of his works, but the his name had not registered.
self-portrait 10 hours ago [-]
There is Jim Jarmusch cinema called "Dead Man."
The protagonist is William Blake - boards a train to the town of Machine.
The Milton prints, Songs of Innocence, plus the illustrations of the Book of Revelations were pre-Romantic steel engravings.
I regard Blake to be this anti-positivist character in the 19th century.
Anti-Kant, anti-Newton.
s5300 1 days ago [-]
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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.
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.)
The protagonist is William Blake - boards a train to the town of Machine.
The Milton prints, Songs of Innocence, plus the illustrations of the Book of Revelations were pre-Romantic steel engravings.
I regard Blake to be this anti-positivist character in the 19th century.
Anti-Kant, anti-Newton.