english poet and artist, mystic and visionary.

William never visited school, he received an education at home - his mother was taught.

Parents were Protestants and very religious people, therefore all life is strongthe influence on the worldview of Blake was provided by the Bible.

Adam and Eve at the Body Abel. 1825.

William Blake and British Visions

Great architect. 1794.

As a child, Blake copied the Greek plots from the drawings acquired for him by his father. Parents, sorry that he did not go to school, gave it to painting lessons. William's early work speaks of his acquaintance with the work of Ben Johnson and Edmund Spencer. At the same time, he begins to write poems.

Tornado loved. 1827

In 1778, Blake entered the Royal Academy of Arts, where he manifested himself as an adherent of the classic style of the high revival era. The first collection of poems Blake, "Poetic sketches", came out in 1783. In the future, the poet creates several "illuminated manuscripts", personally engraving its poems and drawings on the copper board.

William Blake is a bright representative of the Romantic Epoch, which made a great contribution to the development of the 19th century English literature. Being not only the original poet, but also a skilled engraving and a designer, Blake was not recognized as contemporaries.

Recognition of Blake as a writer came to him much later - already in the 20th century, when in 1966 a complete collection of his writings was published. Up to this point, the connoisseurs and admirers of his talent were only his close friends who periodically published works by William at their own expense.

The first book Blake "Poetic sketches" opened a new period in the English literature, which was the first swallow, with the advent of which the real takeoff of the poetry of romanticism began in Dotola. In the "poetic sketches" there was no trace of mysticism. So, the singer in the "song of madness" compares himself with "a demon who slept in the cloud", and this is nothing more than a metaphor, but in later and pure mystical works of the poet we already read about the "child sitting on the cloud" or about "my Bratz John, this evil genius, shrouded in a black cloud and publishing loud moans. "

The next book is the collection "Island on the Moon" - marks the beginning of the mystical period in the work of Blake. "Island on the moon" is satire on a group of amateurs and loafers who used to gather in the house of Mrs. and Mr. Matthew. At the same time, a book includes several beautiful lyrical poems, which were not known for other manuscripts of Blake. There are other poems in it, which were subsequently included in them in the book "Songs of Innocence".

William Blake died on August 12, 1827, in the midst of his work on the illustrations to the "Divine Comedy". His death was sudden and unexplained.

Poetry Blake contains ideas that will be major for romanticism, although in its contrasts, the rationalism of the prior era is still felt. Blake perceived the world as an eternal update and movement that his philosophy relates to his philosophy with the ideas of German philosophers of the romantic period. At the same time, he was able to see only what opened his imagination. Blake wrote: "The world is an infinite vision of fantasy or imagination." These words determine the foundations of his creativity. Democraticism and humanism is fully embodied in one of the "Adclover Ads": "The highest act is to put another before". Delight before the possibilities of man's mind is unchanged at Blake: "One thought fills the immenseness (immensity). His famous quatrain of "Nevnicinity" contains almost all the ideas of romanticism ...

In one moment you see eternity,
The huge world - in the grain of sand,
In a single handstone - infinity
And the sky is in a cup of flower.

It is opposed to an hour and eternity, sandbank and peace, a handful and infinity, flower and sky. At the same time, the "sky" can be understood as something standing above the whole universe, as an indication of the Creator. But the time, space, man and God are not only opposed to Blake, but also are connected as in German romantics: in each single part of the universal particle: as in the grain of sand, a particle of infinity is embodied, so the entity is reflected in the phenomenon.

Big red dragon and wife sun. 1810.

The contrast of the world at Blake is particularly expressed in the cycles of the poems "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience." Obviously, it is not by chance that the first cycle appeared in the year of the overthrow of the French revolution, and the second - in the period of the Jacobin terror. In joining the first cycle, the child asks to sing a song about lamb, and the poet writes funny songs so that everyone has a holiday in the shower. This cycle includes a poem "Lamb". Little lamb, who created you? - asks the author in the first line. His "clothes from delight", the "gentle voice" is touched by the poet. He sees proximity to Jesus Christ in Lamb (Abnze):

Little lamb
I am telling you:
He is called your name
For he calls
Yaghenko himself
(Lamb).

Beautiful bright images, autumned by Jesus, arise in the first cycle. In joining the second cycle, tensions are felt, the uncertainty arising during this period in the world, the author puts another task, "Tiger" appears in verses. A gentle voice and wondrous clothing of the lamb is opposed by an personifying tiger fire burning "in the night of the night": there he is not only especially of the born, but also creates a sense of horror. The poet again wonders, who created the night fire? Who has enough strength to create "terrible symmetry"? In response, surprise is preserved: the one who created the Lamb created you?

But for the poet, the question is resolved: the Creator is able to create the whole universe, complete contradictions. For Blake, the world is one, although consists of opposites. This idea will become fundamental to romanticism.

Brodsky, Song Innocence

The most significant lyrical collections of Blake are "Songs of Innocence" (1789) and "Songs of Experience" (1794). The most romantic part of Blake's creativity - his "prophetic books", written by unimproving verse (which subsequently imitated W. Whitman): the poem "Vision of the daughters of Albion" (1793), the poems "America" \u200b\u200b(1793), "Europe" (1794), " The first book of Juraisen "(1794)," Book of Akhan "(1795)," Los Book "(1795)," Shafts, or Four Zoa "(1804)," Milton "(1808)," Jerusalem; Albion Giant Emanation "(1820). Of great importance for the development of revolutionary and romantic glances Blake had his work on the poems "French Revolution" (1790) and "Marriage of the Sky and Hell" (1798)."The thiranoboric theme passes the formidable leitmotif through all the" prophetic books "of Blake.

Lullaby. Music and execution: Boris Levi. Poems: William Blake.

It is significant for the sinister image of Yuraizen - a cold, deadly-cruel despot, which for the time being he had enslaved all the living. The strength of fire, light, freedom-los, orc, fondon will be rebuilt against him. Blekeke firmly believed that the people would eventually win that in the green earth of England will be "jerusalem" - a fair classless society of the future.

Blake had a significant impact on the western culture of the 20th century. The song "Jerusalem" on poems Blake is considered unofficial anthem in the UK.

The harmony of nature, in his opinion, was only anti-high harmony, which should create a holistic and spiritualized personality. This belief predetermined and the creative principles of Blake. Romantics nature - a mirror of the soul, Blake is rather a book of characters. He does not value neither the painfulness of the landscape, nor his accuracy, as he does not value and psychologism. All the surrounding perceived by him in the light of spiritual conflicts, and above all through the prism of the eternal conflict of mechanistic and free vision. In nature, he discovers the same passivity and mechanism as in social life. Therefore, ignorance, indisputability, spiritual purity, naturalness determines the emotional and figurative range of the first part of the cycle, - for Blake is not only a certain lost paradise. Its thought is more difficult, - perhaps, it is most fully transferred in the image of a lost and found child, arising in the "songs of ignorance" and in the "Songs of Knowledge".

Two-benty. Aphorisms. Selected works

For the sample, I will take a sage of ogrech, than a fool of the victory and progress. The laws of keeping his whole century tried - as a result, the fools remained in fools. Murders are usually committed not in the rustling of infinite passions, but for evil intent and quite coolly.

You will learn to learn from sheep!

So that it is easier to cut me, Holy Father?

In Paradise, I was improved in paradise,

I'd rather in hell I was.

The scientist husband is, who loves to figure out, but there is no simple person. Damn the parties - what will happen to then?

Neither Greece with Rome nor Babylon with Egypt was standing at the origins of the arts and sciences, as is customary to think; On the contrary - they pursued them and destroyed.

He who is not able to learn the truth at first glance will never know her.

Some people will never notice the picture, if it does not hang in a dark corner.

Tirands are the worst of the disease: all the other ailments are stems from it.

He is slavy bliss laws - this is a fool! And became a slave of laws finally.

Only one who goes on this path can be lost on the path, that is, the person is creative. And the man is ordinary, let him lead a righteous lifestyle, will never be an artist. Genius can show himself only through its works.

"Friend - rarity!" - in antiquity they loved to repeat,

Now all are friends: there are nowhere to give them!

The sky and the underworld were born together.

The ability to surprise and admire - the first step to knowledge, while skepticism and mockery - the first step towards degradation. One who never in his thoughts is asked to heavenly, cannot be considered an artist.

Only the mind can generate monsters - the heart is incapable of it. Getting to please people with a bad taste, you lose the opportunity to please people with a good taste. To please all tastes at the same time - the item is impossible.

The goal of the wise is clarity, but the fool secretly

Intrigue stupid betray him.

It is better to imitate the Great Master than the hundreds of third-term artists.

The less thing is said, the more eloquently it looks like.

The smartest thoughts come to mind those who never write them.

There are people who believe that if they do not repeat everyday that the sun rises in the east, it will take and goes in the West.

Weak courage is strong cunning.

If you try to please your enemies, you can offend friends. It is impossible to please everyone.

Difficulties mobilize, successes relax.

The collection is dedicated to the work of the English poet and the artist William Blake (1757-1827). Prepares the essay of the essay V.Zhirmunsky "William Blake". The collection includes works from the book "Poetic sketches", "Songs of innocence" and "Song experience", verses of different years, from "prophetic books", aphorisms.

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The name of the wonderful English poet and artist William Blake became aware of the wide ranges of Soviet readers mostly since 1957, when the International Council of Peace decided to celebrate the anniversary of the two hundred years from his birth. In our periodic printing, a number of translations from Blake Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak, of which part (14 rooms) were reprinted in Tome III of the Collected Works (1959). There are articles and books about the English poet.

Blake's name was almost unknown and its English contemporaries. London's native, by the profession, engraver, he lived his life on the verge of poverty, earning his bread with the fulfillment of regular orders, which delivered him from time to time his few friends and patrons. The paintings of Blake during his lifetime were almost not exhibited, and when they were exhibited - passed unnoticed. For the inability to find a publisher for their poetic books, he himself engraved on copper their text and illustrations to him with the help of a special, invented by him for this technique ("convex etching"). Little specimens painted by him from hand, he was selling for nothing to his friends and admirers; Now they are the rare property of artistic museums and private collections and are valued for gold weight. As the poet Blake actually stood outside the literature of his time. When he died, he was buried on public funds in an unnamed general grave. Now his bust is delivered in Westminster Abbey next to the monuments of the largest poets of England.

The "discovery" of Blake occurred in the second half of the XIX century, and in the XX century his work, who received universal recognition took on an outstanding place in the rich heritage of English poetry.

The first collector, publisher and sympathetic interpreter of Blake's work was the head of the English "Prerafaelites" Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as and Blake - the poet and the artist. Rossetti was fortunate enough to acquire an extensive collection of unfastened manuscripts and engravings of Blake, with which he began to get acquainted with his work. With the direct participation of Dante Gabriel and his younger brother, the first dual-volume biography of Blake, the extensive livelihood of the Great Stranger, written by Alexander Hilcrist (1863), was published, written by Alexander Hilcrist (1863), which was also the first publication of some part of his poetic and artistic heritage at the same time. Following Rossetti, his student, then the poet A.-B. Sinbury, who later became one of the founders of the English symbolism, was devoted to Blake, enthusiastic and reverent (1868). Blake's cult has received further development in the circle of English symbolists. Blake was declared the predecessor of symbolism. Accordingly, this is currently the dominant direction of English and American criticism considers Blake primarily as a mystic and symbolist.

From this point of view, his first Russian connoisseurs who belonged to the same literary camp came to Blake.

Meanwhile, in fact, the modern advanced criticism in England and America, mystic and "Spiritsec" Blake was convincingly proved, at the same time, according to his public worldview by humanist and a philanthropy with broad democratic sympathies, a fiery accuser of social evil and injustice. Although Blake, like its late contemporaries - English romance, considered the creative imagination of the poet artist (Imagination) the greatest ability of a person, his own poetry generated by a huge gift of artistic imagination was never "art for art": it is full of deep moral and social pathos , has a peculiar public trend, embodied, however, in lyric rich images, and not in abstract didactic arguments. Through the gentle poetic fabric of his "songs", as well as through the mythological themes of his "prophetic books," he shines in artistic sublimated form of modern and deeply actual public content. Despite the fact that there were few people in his life, Blake did not look at himself as a poet for a few; On the contrary, he felt like a high mission carrier facing all mankind. He wrote about this mission: "Every honest person is a prophet; He expresses his opinion about public and private affairs. He says:" If you do this, the result will be such something. "He will never say:" How would you Neither came, anyway, something will happen. "

Biography Blake is not rich externally notable events. He was born and lived all his life in London. His father was a small seller of haberdashery products ("Consumer"), a man of poor and multi-semen, sectarian ("Disementer"), who appeared to a preaching of Sweden's Swedish Miscelly in London. Among the wide democratic lowerons of the London small bourgeoisie in the XVIII century, the traditions of the left "heretical" sect of the English revolution, who were in opposition to the dominant church, the state and social system, at the same time mystical and revolutionary were still alive. In their teachings, social utopias were embodied in biblical images that received mystical interpretation. Educational rationalism and religious skepticism were considered as the expression of the "secular spirit" of the dominant classes.

In this atmosphere, young Blake was built in this atmosphere, and she determined the originality of his spiritual appearance of the Mystic Visioner and at the same time a fighter for social justice. Pupil on the Bible and on the "prophetic" books that had bought in this environment, endowed with the live poetic imagination of the poet from ornamental years were "vision", in the reality of which he believed until the end of life, having deserved the glory of the madman and eccentric. He did not receive any systematic education, but he read a lot and randomly. From the ornament, he was familiar with the writings of Mistikov Swedenborg and Yakova Bem, with Plato and Neo-Platonics (in the English translation of Taylora), but also with the English philosophy of the Epoch of the Enlightenment, to which he treated with prejudice; He read Shakespeare and especially Milton and was fond of the literature of the English "Gothic Renaissance" of the XVIII century, Poaching Ossian, Chatterston and English Poland; He knew Latin and Italian poets - Vergil, Ovid and Ariosto; Already an adult, he learned Greek and Hebrew to read in the original Bible, and at the end of his life - Italian, to better understand and illustrate the "Divine Comedy" Dante.

The creative abilities of Blake manifested very early. At the age of ten years, he began to study drawing; For about this time, his first poems are written. Four years later, at wish, he was given to training for Gravel Bezayru, an experienced, but a mediocre master, which he worked for eight years as a subset. On behalf of his teacher and the owner, he did sketching the old Gothic gravestone monuments of Westminster Abbey and other London churches for him. "Gothic shape is a living form," - wrote later Blake. Gothic, French Engravings and Michelangelo creations were those artistic samples that determined the basis of the original style of Blake as an engraver. This profession served in the future the main source of its existence. In addition to many small and random work, it performed large cycles of illustrations to the essays of the English poets of the XVIII century - the "nightdiction" of Young and the "Tomb" of Bleira, illustrated Eclo-Vergil, "Book of Job" and "Divine Comedy" Dante. These orders are usually poorly paid. More than once, Publishers-Kommersant cheated a gullible artist, having charging a more fashionable professional to engrave the drawings made by him or selecting from them to play only a small part. The original ones and compositions, extraordinary expressiveness and strength, artworks of Blake were not seen by contemporaries and received recognition, like his poetry, only in the newest time.

Mystic William Blake

See the world in one sand
And the space is all - in the forest blades,
In the palm of the infinity
And in a miga fleeting eternity ...
William Blake

"For forty years, there was no one day so that I did not take for a copper board. Engraving is a craft to which I studied, I was not worth it and try to live with a different work. My heavens are copper, and my earth is iron. " So wrote about myself at the beginning of the nineteenth century Multi-trust William Blake. One of the rooms served them with Kate living room, the other is a bedroom, a kitchen, an office and a workshop. There were almost no things. Wife walked in simple, stuck dress. "From endless adversity, she has long lost its former beauty, except for the one that she gave her love and speaking eyes, sparkling and black."

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Blake William (11/28/1757-12.08.1827), English painter, engraver, poet. The art of painting and engravings studied in London in Graveyard J. Bazayra (from 1771), visited the Academy of Arts (1778), he experienced the influence of J. Flaxman. In the work of Blake, illustrated by watercolors and engravings, own poems ("Songs of ignorance", 1789; "Songs of Knowledge", 1794; "Book of Job", 1818-1825; "Divine Comedy" Dante, 1825-1827 and other works)Brightly reflected the trends of romanticism in the English art of the late XVIII - the first quarter of the XIX century: the master of the master to visionary fiction, allegorizing and mystical symbolism, appeal to the bold, almost arbitrary game of lines, sharp compositional solutions.

Blake William. The Lovers Whirlwind. Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo ...

Blake denies the traditional composition and perspective, the exquisite linear forms of painting work cause an idea of \u200b\u200bthe past world. The style itself reflects the original mystical vision of the world characteristic of the artist, in which the reality and imagination merge.

Engraver and Book Illustrator by profession, Blake expressed his talent in poetry and in astonishing on the effects of mystical and symbolic paintings. The spiritual world appeared to William Blake more important than the material material, and the true artist saw him the prophet, endowed with the divine gift of penetration into the essence of things. Blake lived in poverty and died unrecognized August 12, 1827. Currently, William Blake is rightfully considered one of the great masters of English visual art and literature, one of the most vibrant and original painters of his time.

William Blake. Illustration for Drante Divine Comedy. "Hell"

William Blake. Illustration for Drante Divine Comedy. "Hell"

William Blake (eng. William Blake; November 28, 1757, London - August 12, 1827, London) - English poet and artist, mystic and Vizier.

Now, almost two hundred years later, it became obvious that the works of William Blake were not intended for its contemporaries. All his life he worked, turning to his descendants, and apparently it was aware of himself. To see the full indifference to his contemporaries brought him considerable despair, "my works are more famous in heaven than on earth" - so he said, and continued to do, hoping for due respect and attention of his descendants. Today, the overwhelming look at his work, we can understand how much he overtakes its generation, perhaps per cent, and perhaps more. Two centuries passed after his life, you can call, two centuries of his oblivion, and only today, William Blake becomes a real doubtful idol. For example, in the UK, his poem "Jerusalem" became almost the second national anthem, and in America, the grandiose success had an exhibition of its picturesque and engraving works, which was held in 2001 in the New York Museum Metropolitan. Today, Blake's books overlook the huge circulations in many countries, including in Russia, and they are not parted on the shelves. The number of translations is growing.

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Bleik phenomenon

Attracts in Blake not only his work, but also his mysterious person. Attracts his strange and uncommon creative fate. The main feature of his creative life was that Blake was not a special poet, nor a special artist, nor a special philosopher. Moreover, his literary works very often go against the standards of literary English, painting often contradicts generally accepted canons, and his philosophy is not always sophisticated and logical. However, if you take all its works in aggregate, then they are something ambitious, something fascinating and majestic. In general, his creative works are a completely definite, they represent the result of a long, stubborn and deep search for a creative talented soul. Blake can be appreciated primarily for trying to penetrate into many laws of this universe, understand and teach spirituality itself.

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He did it by writing literary works (in verses and prose), complementing them for better assimilation of numerous illustrations. Such a literary reception, which unites philosophy, literature and painting, previously never met. He is special, and even after William Blake, few people were capable of such creative mobility (in particular, Khalil Jebran is called the follower of the techniques of William Blake). However, it remains to be recognized that it is such an extraordinary admission of creative self-expression that it is impossible to effectively suit William Blake in order to express its prophetic ideas, express his enlightened look at the purity of spirituality.

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The works of Blake testify to us how deep and thin the inner world of the author was. He was absolutely not like the one in which the rest live, which makes it clear what Blake himself, and what was his creative mission. We clearly realize that a person who has achieved a similar level of self-expression was able to go beyond the usual conditional framework of human awareness, beyond the work of the senses and mind organs. On such exemption from the conventions, the in-depth perception of reality is capable of only the person who is entirely absorbed by the desire for spirituality, to his laws, his being. This is the level of the world-trip William Blake. From here there is a completely concurred question: and whether he himself was endowed with something special, allowing him to see the world with other eyes - more complex and diverse, was he at a higher level of human awareness, in other words, did he have a really spiritual self-realization to be able to do so, so pass through yourself the world around?

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The purity of the spirituality of William Blake, free from the shackles of rationalism and the dry dogma, was not only his creative method, but also ways of thoughts, his condition, his inner essence. He was not a poet "for all" and, as can be seen, did not strive for it. He wrote for those whom, as his own, worried the themes of spirituality. He believed in the divine purpose of the poet, to the fact that the inspiration was given over, believed in his mission of the prophet, designed to open people "the eyes facing inside." Be that as it may, William Blake passed it to the end to illuminate the road to those who would follow him next. The result of his path was his work as guiding lighthouses for seekers who wish to rise from oblique and blind ideas, beliefs and conventions to the heights of spirituality.

William Blake has managed to create a huge number of works in the field of painting and literature. Moreover, it should be noted that, unlike other artists of the brush and words, his creative skill with age did not decline, but on the contrary, it was improved. By the end of his life, the masterpieces of his creativity, for example, the work of "Lakoon" or illustrations to the "Divine Comedy" Dante, where William Blake also showed the depth of literary thought, and the ease of possession of the brush, which was not observed behind him Previously.

In the history of world literature, William Blake is considered to be the first English poet-romantic. It strikes the unprecedented flavor of the author's moods, its unpredictability and inability to understand and accommodate everything in us that he expressed himself. Sometimes he slipped the rebellious moods, and they immediately go into religious mysticism. His lyrical motifs are combined with figurative mythology and symbolism. His innocent joyful perception of the world turns into a certain mysticism of the collision of the forces of good and evil, heaven and hell. His mythological system of complex symbolic images and allegory has long remained incomprehensible and was considered not amenable to any decoding. Only now scientists are beginning to seal to the rays.

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Recognition Blake

It is believed that in 1863 it was the beginning of the recognition of William Blake and the growth of interest in Him. At this time, Alexander Gilcrist was published a biography "Life Blake". Soon after that, never published early poems of Blake, who manifested him as a lyrical poet-romantic was published. Bleck engravings found later, previously unknown, influenced the development of the so-called Modern style. In 1893, IITS, together with Ellis, released a threetomy, at that time the most complete publication of the works of Blake, accompanied by his brief biography of the poet. However, the real interest in the work and the personality of Blake began in the twentieth century.

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In 1966, "Full Collection of Works William Blake". Blake opened the world not only as an apocalyptic provider, as he was accustomed to count, but also as the author of witty epigram and aphorisms, as an original thinker and critic, a much ahead of his orthodox, a coexist eyelid.

As for Russia and the countries of the former USSR, the name of William Blake became aware of the general public only since 1957, after the whole world noted the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. His works began to appear in periodic printing, and in separate collections. Blake was published relatively rarely, and much of his work was never translated into Russian. It remains to hope that over time all the legacy of his work will be translated.

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The artist, philosopher William Blake, worked, referring only to future generations. He firmly knew that only the descendants would be able to appreciate his works. And now, at the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries, will not find recognition from contemporaries. He was right: all the secrets of his genius were not revealed so far.

Life Path

William Blake with all his non-market external events does not give a special expanser in biographers. He was born in London in 1757 in a poor family of a bench, lived in the same place all his life until his death, up to seventy years. The care and participation of relatives, admiration for a very narrow circle of his admirers and students is William Blake received to the full. For some time he studied the craft of Engraver and earned it later. The daily life, which was led by William Blake, was full of routine and mining he was engaged in the manufacture of engravings in other people's originals, much less often - according to its own. He created illustrations for the "Canterbury Stories" of Choser, the book of Job. Here is one of the illustrations to Dante "Vorki Lovers."

It is a powerful and terrible stream that does not occur to a simple man in which the artist has not descended. Therefore, when William Blake tried to approve himself as an artist, then came across a deaf wall of misunderstanding. Only twenty years later, after his death, for the general public, he was "open" by Prerafaelitis. The world and diverse creative heritage, which left William Blake, is not understood until the end. The biography of his spiritual is complex and filled with bright events.

Poetry

One of the creative tasks that the poet has solved throughout life is to create a new mythological system, the so-called Bible of hell. The most famous and kind of perfect work is "Songs of innocence and experience." His poem is pointless to consider each separately. They are interconnected by many of the finest threads and acquire the true sound only in the context of the entire cycle.

Internal experiences

He had decades when he fell a long time. This shows his painful and tense spiritual quest. Contemporaries did not understand him, but perhaps that is why his work was focused on his inner vision. And it was macro and microcosmogonic, bold, fantastic, with an unusual lines and acute composition. This William Blake, whose paintings were not adopted by contemporaries, strikes us now. He took them from the world who knew or saw before. This is the very Blake, who saw infinity in the palm and eternity in one hour. "Newton" is one of the most famous pictures.

In it, the physicist is represented by the great architect of the universe with one of the Masonic symbols in his hands. William Blake Antiliered Dali, who will claim the title of the world's first artist in the field of quantum physics. No, Salvador Dali was late for a long time.

Past Albiona

England rules her mythological past, considered William Blake. Pictures are written on the themes of Celts and Druids, having special knowledge and myths.

It is the memories of them, according to Blake, can identify previously hidden truths.

Illustrations for the Bible

Creating illustrations to the Bible, he does not write shepherds or baby Jesus, but mystically sees Satan. "The marriage of the sky and hell" is one of his books written in the imitation of the biblical books of prophecies. The same we see in his paintings. What William Blake wrote, "Red Dragon" is a series of watercolor paintings created to illustrate the Bible, books are big with the seven heads and crowns on them. His tail "bold" a third of the stars from the sky to the ground. These pictures depict the dragon in various scenes.

The first painting "Big Red Dragon and a wife crashed in the sun." Different theologians, it is interpreted by about this. The wife is a church, the light of Christ, and the sun above it is sacred. In the flour, she gives birth to a child who intends to absorb the dragon. But she managed to escape.

From the rage, the dragon kicks water, which should be absorbed and his wife, and the Earth.

He is incredibly terrible and confident in his strength.

Some modern views on theology

You can look at these horrors. Church of Christ was created as a place of love and mercy. There was no devil in the initial teachings. His idea was paradoxically developed and gained strength during the period of the Middle Ages as well as the idea of \u200b\u200bhell to control the shoes of the flock. On the one hand, the Paradise is a gingerbread, on the other hand, the twice, to which man pushes the Devil. So the devil gained an extraordinary strength of the church. And now close to the museum. Few people seriously think about him.

But this does not diminish the work of Blake. They offer to reflect on what is good and what is evil. He was a prophet and a lot foresaw, like his own death.

At six o'clock in the evening on the day of his death, Blake felt her, promised his wife, which will always be with her, and died. So what was death for him?

See the world in one sand
And the space is all - in the forest blades,
In the palm of the infinity
And in a miga fleeting eternity ...
Willow M Blake

"For forty years, there was no one day so that I did not take for a copper board. Engraving is a craft to which I studied, I was not worth it and try to live with a different work. My heavens are copper, and my earth is iron. " So wrote about myself at the beginning of the nineteenth century Multi-trust William Blake. One of the rooms served them with Kate living room, the other is a bedroom, a kitchen, an office and a workshop. There were almost no things. Wife walked in simple, stuck dress. "From endless adversity, she has long lost its former beauty, except for the one that she gave her love and speaking eyes, sparkling and black."

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Blake William (11/28/1757-12.08.1827), English painter, engraver, poet. The art of painting and engravings studied in London in Graveyard J. Bazayra (from 1771), visited the Academy of Arts (1778), he experienced the influence of J. Flaxman. In the work of Blake, illustrated by watercolors and engravings, own poems ("Songs of ignorance", 1789; "Songs of Knowledge", 1794; "Book of Job", 1818-1825; "Divine Comedy" Dante, 1825-1827 and other works)Brightly reflected the trends of romanticism in the English art of the late XVIII - the first quarter of the XIX century: the master of the master to visionary fiction, allegorizing and mystical symbolism, appeal to the bold, almost arbitrary game of lines, sharp compositional solutions.

Blake William. The Lovers Whirlwind. Francesca Da Rimini and Paolo ...

Blake denies the traditional composition and perspective, the exquisite linear forms of painting work cause an idea of \u200b\u200bthe past world. The style itself reflects the original mystical vision of the world characteristic of the artist, in which the reality and imagination merge.

Engraver and Book Illustrator by profession, Blake expressed his talent in poetry and in astonishing on the effects of mystical and symbolic paintings. The spiritual world appeared to William Blake more important than the material material, and the true artist saw him the prophet, endowed with the divine gift of penetration into the essence of things. Blake lived in poverty and died unrecognized August 12, 1827. Currently, William Blake is rightfully considered one of the great masters of English visual art and literature, one of the most vibrant and original painters of his time.

William Blake. Illustration for Drante Divine Comedy. "Hell"

William Blake. Beatrice from the chariot talks to Dante

William Blake. Illustration for Drante Divine Comedy. "Hell"

William Blake (eng. William Blake; November 28, 1757, London - August 12, 1827, London) - English poet and artist, mystic and Vizier.

Now, almost two hundred years later, it became obvious that the works of William Blake were not intended for its contemporaries. All his life he worked, turning to his descendants, and apparently it was aware of himself. To see the full indifference to his contemporaries brought him considerable despair, "my works are more famous in heaven than on earth" - so he said, and continued to do, hoping for due respect and attention of his descendants. Today, the overwhelming look at his work, we can understand how much he overtakes its generation, perhaps per cent, and perhaps more. Two centuries passed after his life, you can call, two centuries of his oblivion, and only today, William Blake becomes a real doubtful idol. For example, in the UK, his poem "Jerusalem" became almost the second national anthem, and in America, the grandiose success had an exhibition of its picturesque and engraving works, which was held in 2001 in the New York Museum Metropolitan. Today, Blake's books overlook the huge circulations in many countries, including in Russia, and they are not parted on the shelves. The number of translations is growing.

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Bleik phenomenon

Attracts in Blake not only his work, but also his mysterious person. Attracts his strange and uncommon creative fate. The main feature of his creative life was that Blake was not a special poet, nor a special artist, nor a special philosopher. Moreover, his literary works very often go against the standards of literary English, painting often contradicts generally accepted canons, and his philosophy is not always sophisticated and logical. However, if you take all its works in aggregate, then they are something ambitious, something fascinating and majestic. In general, his creative works are a completely definite, they represent the result of a long, stubborn and deep search for a creative talented soul. Blake can be appreciated primarily for trying to penetrate into many laws of this universe, understand and teach spirituality itself.

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He did it by writing literary works (in verses and prose), complementing them for better assimilation of numerous illustrations. Such a literary reception, which unites philosophy, literature and painting, previously never met. He is special, and even after William Blake, few people were capable of such creative mobility (in particular, Khalil Jebran is called the follower of the techniques of William Blake). However, it remains to be recognized that it is such an extraordinary admission of creative self-expression that it is impossible to effectively suit William Blake in order to express its prophetic ideas, express his enlightened look at the purity of spirituality.

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The works of Blake testify to us how deep and thin the inner world of the author was. He was absolutely not like the one in which the rest live, which makes it clear what Blake himself, and what was his creative mission. We clearly realize that a person who has achieved a similar level of self-expression was able to go beyond the usual conditional framework of human awareness, beyond the work of the senses and mind organs. On such exemption from the conventions, the in-depth perception of reality is capable of only the person who is entirely absorbed by the desire for spirituality, to his laws, his being. This is the level of the world-trip William Blake. From here there is a completely concurred question: and whether he himself was endowed with something special, allowing him to see the world with other eyes - more complex and diverse, was he at a higher level of human awareness, in other words, did he have a really spiritual self-realization to be able to do so, so pass through yourself the world around?

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The purity of the spirituality of William Blake, free from the shackles of rationalism and the dry dogma, was not only his creative method, but also ways of thoughts, his condition, his inner essence. He was not a poet "for all" and, as can be seen, did not strive for it. He wrote for those whom, as his own, worried the themes of spirituality. He believed in the divine purpose of the poet, to the fact that the inspiration was given over, believed in his mission of the prophet, designed to open people "the eyes facing inside." Be that as it may, William Blake passed it to the end to illuminate the road to those who would follow him next. The result of his path was his work as guiding lighthouses for seekers who wish to rise from oblique and blind ideas, beliefs and conventions to the heights of spirituality.

William Blake has managed to create a huge number of works in the field of painting and literature. Moreover, it should be noted that, unlike other artists of the brush and words, his creative skill with age did not decline, but on the contrary, it was improved. By the end of his life, the masterpieces of his creativity, for example, the work of "Lakoon" or illustrations to the "Divine Comedy" Dante, where William Blake also showed the depth of literary thought, and the ease of possession of the brush, which was not observed behind him Previously.

In the history of world literature, William Blake is considered to be the first English poet-romantic. It strikes the unprecedented flavor of the author's moods, its unpredictability and inability to understand and accommodate everything in us that he expressed himself. Sometimes he slipped the rebellious moods, and they immediately go into religious mysticism. His lyrical motifs are combined with figurative mythology and symbolism. His innocent joyful perception of the world turns into a certain mysticism of the collision of the forces of good and evil, heaven and hell. His mythological system of complex symbolic images and allegory has long remained incomprehensible and was considered not amenable to any decoding. Only now scientists are beginning to seal to the rays.

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Recognition Blake

It is believed that in 1863 it was the beginning of the recognition of William Blake and the growth of interest in Him. At this time, Alexander Gilcrist was published a biography "Life Blake". Soon after that, never published early poems of Blake, who manifested him as a lyrical poet-romantic was published. Bleck engravings found later, previously unknown, influenced the development of the so-called Modern style. In 1893, IITS, together with Ellis, released a threetomy, at that time the most complete publication of the works of Blake, accompanied by his brief biography of the poet. However, the real interest in the work and the personality of Blake began in the twentieth century.

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In 1966, "Full Collection of Works William Blake". Blake opened the world not only as an apocalyptic provider, as he was accustomed to count, but also as the author of witty epigram and aphorisms, as an original thinker and critic, a much ahead of his orthodox, a coexist eyelid.

As for Russia and the countries of the former USSR, the name of William Blake became aware of the general public only since 1957, after the whole world noted the two hundredth anniversary of his birth. His works began to appear in periodic printing, and in separate collections. Blake was published relatively rarely, and much of his work was never translated into Russian. It remains to hope that over time all the legacy of his work will be translated.

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