PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Brith date: November 28,1757
Death date: August 12,1827
Education: Royal Academy of Art's school design
Place of birth: London England, United Kingdom
Place of death: London England, United Kingdom
William Blake
Was a 19th century writer and artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the romantic age. His writing figure have influenced countless writers and artist thought the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and original thinker.
Synopsis
Born in 1757 in London,England .
William Blake began writing at an early age and claimed to had his first vision, of a tree full of angels, at age 10. He studied engraving and grew to love gothic art, which he incorporated into his own unique works. A miss understood poet, artist and visionary through much of his life, Blake found admires late in life and has been vastly influenced his death in 1827.
Early years
William Blake was born on November 28,1757 in the sono district of London,England. He only briefly attended school, being chiefly educate at home by his mother. The bible had an early, profound influenced on Blake, and it would remain a lifetime source of inspiration, coloring his life and works with intense spirituality. At an early age Blake began experience visions and his friend journalist Hendry Crabb Robinson wrote that Blake saw gods heads appear in a window when Blake was 4 years old. He also allegedly saw the prophet Ezekiel under a tree filled with angels . Blake's vision would have a lasting effect on the art and writing that he produced.
The young artist
Blake's artistic ability became evident in his youth, and by age 10 he was enrolled at Hendry para's drawing school where he sketched the human figure by copying from plaster casts of ancient status. At age 14, he apprenticed with an monuments, where his lifelong love of gothic art was seeded.
The young artist
Also around this time, Blake began collecting prints of artist who had fallen out of vogue at the time, including durer, Appel and Michael Angelo. In the catalog for an exhibition of his own work in 1809, nearly 40 years later, in fact Blake would lambast artist "who endeavor to raise up a style against Rafael, Michael Angelo and the Antique". He also rejected 18th century literary trends, preferring the Elizabethans ( Shakespeare, Jonson, and spencer) and accent ballads instead.
IMAGE OF WILLIAM BLAKE ART WORK
