LoginWilliam Blake
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Born: 28 November 1757 Died: 12 August 1827
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United Kingdom
Relationship Status: Married
Partner: Catherine Boucher
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Famous Writers Who Also Made Art (8 art items)" "English poet-painter William Blake, a reclusive and visionary artist, produced and published his own books with engraved texts and hand-colored illustrations. Themes of obscure religious and mythical stories and man’s quest for the divine permeate all of Blake’s writings and paintings while elements of Michalangelo and the Mannerist school and pre-Rennaissance book illuminations are evident in the content of his work. Blake had no use for the visible world around us, relying on his own "
Surrealist painters and their precursors (84 person items)"(1757-1827) Whirlwind of Lovers (c. 1826)"
Recommended & Favorite Authors of Fiction & Poetry (63 person items)"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ~William Blake"
