Monday, September 1, 2014

Painting #061 - William Blake

William Blake 

(1757–1827, English Romantic)


- William Blake 
- originally a book frontispiece to 
"Europe, a Prophecy" (23.3 x 16.8 cm) 1794 
- British Museum (London) 
It shows Urizen (the embodiment of conventional reason and law) crouching in a circular design with a cloud-like background. His outstretched hand holds a compass over the darker void below.


Issac Newton 
- William Blake 
- oil on canvas (460 x 600 cm) 1795
- Collection Tate (London)
Isaac Newton is shown sitting naked and crouched on a rocky outcropping covered with algae, apparently at the bottom of the sea. His attention is focused upon diagrams he draws with a compass, which is smaller than that held by Urizen in Blake's The Ancient of Days.

‘到了17世紀90年代,牛頓開始鑽研宗教思想,他寫下了他對《聖經》的字面意義上和象徵意義上的解析。在牛頓晚年撰寫的各種科學著作中,他對上帝在自然界中的角色表達了一種強烈的意識。’



Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. 

Source: Wikipedia

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