Notorious among his contemporaries as an eccentric nutcase, the genius of William Blake, born in London in 1757, was only recognized and honored after his death. Already haunted by visions of angels, demons and ghosts in his childhood, mysticism served the trained engraver throughout his life as inspiration for his artistic and poetic career. After quarrelling with the President of the Royal Academy of Arts, he founded a printing house and published his works himself, together with his wife Catherine, by inventing a special printing technique, relief etching. Typical for Blake was the novel combination of image and writing.
Also because of the visualization of his visions in his works, which were so different from contemporary art, Blake was regarded by his fellow men as a crazy, yet unusually happy person who stood up for equality of the sexes, races and classes. These views, which were dangerous in the politics of the time, were particularly influenced by a liberal interpretation of the Bible, unlike the Church, and the ideas and ideals of the French Revolution, and were far ahead of their time. In his paintings Blake often used religious motifs, such as the Fall of Man in Satan Exulting over Eve and The Temptation and Fall of Eve.
William Blake died in 1827 largely unnoticed and penniless, but is today considered an important artist whose works still influence pop culture.
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.jpg "Dante Running from the Three Beasts by William Blake")
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.jpg "Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil in the Last Circle of Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "Number of monkeys, baboons.., illustration and text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "The circle of the lustful or The lovers")
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.jpg "Satan Smiting Job with Boils by William Blake")
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.jpg "A naked man with a long white beard is seated on the ground with his knees up and his eyes closed, plate 12 from The First Book of Urizen by William Blake")
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.jpg "Root of an oak, he was suspended in a fungus..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "God Judging Adam by William Blake")
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.jpg "Infant Joy, from Songs of Innocence by William Blake")
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.jpg "Adam and Eve Sleeping by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Exulting over Eve by William Blake")
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.jpg "Europe a Prophecy by William Blake")
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.jpg "Newton by William Blake")
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.jpg "Tornado-Zeus Battling Typhon Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden by William Blake")
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.jpg "Visions of the Daughters of Albion, 1793 by William Blake")
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.jpg "I am Young and ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid by William Blake")
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.jpg "Us with all the fury of a spiritual existence..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "To reconcile them seeks to destroy existence..., text from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake")
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.jpg "Pity by William Blake")
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.jpg "For the Sexes. The Gates of Paradise, Plate 18, I have said to the Worm... by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 81 by William Blake")
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.jpg "America. A Prophecy, Plate 4 by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 1, The Pindaric Genius Receiving His Lyre by William Blake")
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.jpg "Jerusalem, Plate 46 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 5 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 10 by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 47, The Progress of Poesy by William Blake")
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.jpg "The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 64, The Bard 12 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42 by William Blake")
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.jpg "Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve by William Blake")
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.jpg "For the Sexes. The Gates of Paradise, Plate 11, I want! I want! by William Blake")
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.jpg "For Children. The Gates of Paradise, Plate 16, The Traveller hasteth in the Evening by William Blake")
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