William Blake…A landmark in Poetry and Painting
Sudan Events
William Blake is considered one of the distinguished artists who combined the art of poetry and painting, as he used his brush to translate his poetic imagination into artistic paintings that combined the poet’s imagination and the painter’s brush.
The Getty Arts Center in Los Angeles is currently hosting an art exhibition by this artist, as the exhibition includes one hundred and twelve artworks completed by the artist at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Most of his works reflect the life he lived at that time, just as the paintings of this English artist reflected the art of politics in the eighteenth century.
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Eliot is known as a “wildlife painter” and was known for his great influence on modernist artists and writers such as Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and Alan Ginzburg. In the field of poetry, he wrote many poems in addition to short songs.
As for his best poetic works, it is a collection of “Songs of Innocence and Experience,” which includes nineteen poetic pieces dating back to the period between 1789 and 1794 and is currently on display at the Los Angeles Exhibition. Years later, he published a new poetry collection addressed to the animal “The Tiger.” This artist was also a professional engraver.
At the beginning of his life, in order to earn a living, he worked as an engraver on wood and metal, where he developed a special method of engraving for himself that made his works the most immortal among the works of the engravers who contemporaneous him. Blake used engraving to replace printing, engraving texts and illustrations on copperplates, and eventually expressing himself in poetry.
At the age of thirty-three, his great skill in the art of engraving was evident through the work he completed for the artist William Hoggart, entitled “A Beggar’s Opera” in 1790. Hoggart (1697-1764) is considered one of the most famous English engravers.
He was a photographer and engraver, and gained wealth and fame for his works in the art of engraving, including “Modern Marriage,” “Biography of the Dissolute,” and his drawing of “The Four Stages of Savagery,” which is a series of four engraving panels.
