William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
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“Satan Exulting over Eve” (1795), by William Blake; graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
“Satan Exulting over Eve” (1795), by William Blake; graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Blake was here, now he’s not
“Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42, ‘The Tyger’” (1794), by William Blake; color-printed relief etching with watercolor. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionThe invisible Visionary at the Getty Center
William Blake, who died in 1827, is yet another casualty in 2020. The English printmaker, painter-illustrator, and poet-painter (who among us doesn’t know “Tyger, Tyger, burning bright…”?) was to have had the starring role in “William Blake: Visionary,” a Getty show that should have run from July to October.