William Blake’s print titled The Whirlwind of Lovers; the Circle of the Lustful (Fig.1.) depicts a scene from Dante’s Divine Comedy. In the essay The Language of The Prophetic Art Bindman main points were that throughout Blake’s life his art developed and evolved reflecting previous techniques in the past some he continued to use in his artwork and some he rejected later in his career. He argues this point through the use of comparing Blake’s artwork to that of other artists before his time or during his time and using these examples as clear instances of Blake adopting other styles and incorporating it into his artwork.
In the essay Bindman main points was addressing Blake’s gradual change of style in his artwork and by adopting other styles. He does by stating in Blake’s artwork depicts each figure with differentiated features, citing that this type of style was associated in the time of Raphael, during the high renaissance movement. He states that “later in his art career, Blake began to eliminate background figures and showing strong facial expressions in the figures in the foreground” . And cites the artworks Europe (No. 44) (Fig. 2.), The Book of Urizen (Pl, IV) (Fig. 3.), and Plague (No. 12) (Fig. 4.) examples of where the main figures are showing intense emotions. He shows these examples of Blake’s artwork changing styles to support his point that Blake’s artwork was always gradually evolving throughout his art career. I agree with this point due to the many examples he provided of Blake’s artwork incorporating the use of intense emotions in figures.
Bindman continues to address Blake’s evolution of artistic techniques by also stating how during the 1790’s Blake’s artwork became more expressive of the human body. He sta...
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Besides bright or dim colors, and fine or rough brush strokes, artists use centralized composition to convey their interpretations in "The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey," "Amercian Gothic," "The Water-Seller," and "The Third of May,1808.”
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In the essay “Naturalism and the Venetian ‘Poesia’: Grafting, Metaphor, and Embodiment in Giorgione, Titian, and the Campagnolas,” Campbell explains the role of poetic painting, poesia, in Venetian artwork during the 1500s. Titian personally used the term poesia when he “[referred] to paintings he was making for [King Philip II] with subject matter derived from the ancient poets.” Poesia now refers to a type of sixteenth century Venetian painting, which Giorgione and Titian initiated and used within their works. Campbell’s main argument is that poesia is not simply aesthetic or reflective of poetry, but rather “grounded in the process of making – and in making meaning – rather than in an aesthetics of self-sufficiency or self-referentiality.” Like poetry, it is not self-contained; meaning lies outside of the work, within the interpretations of the viewers. He discusses the idea of grafting in poetry and how the same grafting model is utilized in the visual arts. Different images, such as pagan figures and contemporary figures and settings, are juxtaposed to create visual discordance and give an intrinsic meaning to the viewer. Campbell then uses many examples of writing, poetry, engravings, and paintings to explore his argument and the connections between artists during the 1500s.
William Blake focused on biblical images in the majority of his poetry and prose. Much of his well-known work comes from the two compilations Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The poems in these compilations reflect Blake's metamorphosis in thought as he grew from innocent to experienced. An example of this metamorphosis is the two poems The Divine Image and A Divine Image. The former preceded the latter by one year.
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