( 1757- 1827)
English romantic poet, painter and sculptor.
Many of his books were painted and published by himself. He said that the eighteenth century was rationalism and materialism, and imagination was supreme.
Misunderstanding affected his position as a writer and artist. Only later did people gradually realize his importance.
Black was born in London and spent most of his life there. His father was a successful knitwear dealer in London at that time. He encouraged Blake to develop his artistic potential. Black's initial education mainly came from her mother's family education.
1767 was sent to Henry Pass Art School. Blake recorded that since childhood, he had seen visions of monks of angels and demons. He met the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary and various historical figures and talked with them.
At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to the sculptor James Bashir for seven years. Gothic art and architecture have a great influence on him.
He married the gardener's daughter Catherine Butscher. He taught her sketch and oil painting, and she was his assistant wholeheartedly.
1783, Blake's first collection of poems, Selected Poems, came out. 1789, Song of Innocence, 1794, Song of Experience. His most famous tiger poem is the song of experience. These works all look at the world through children's eyes, but they also represent the experiences of adults.
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William blake's innocence and imagination.
Author: Yin Xiaogeng
William. Blake's life is extremely simple, without the characteristics of a great book, only some simple facts and urgent artistic creation activities. 1757, he was born in a poor sock merchant family in London. Because his personality is too unique, he doesn't like the depressing atmosphere of orthodox schools and refuses to enter school, so he has no formal education. He likes painting and poetry since he was a child. 1 1 entered the painting academy for three years, showing extraordinary artistic talent. His father planned to let him study with a famous painter, but for the sake of his family and his younger brother and sister's future, he gave up the opportunity to be an apprentice in the engraving and printing workshop. On the one hand, he lived alone with his wife and made a living by painting and carving. On the other hand, he continued to write poems at the age of 12 and published them with his own illustrations. Until 1827 died in August, a few days ago, he was still working, "asking people to buy carbon pens with the last few shillings", putting down the last painting and saying "I have tried my best".
Talking about william blake is bound to clarify many speculations and accusations about him. Some people say that he is the fabricator and disseminator of crazy and devil beliefs, just like the New Year's old man who can be heard from the cemetery in London at night. Of course, it is impossible for Blake to think or clarify the secular world thoroughly like rabelais and Aledino. Maybe he is a fog of faith, but he is also a "purple fog" full of pain and love. Blake created a way of thinking driven by imagination. Blake is a prophet of imagination and a faithful recorder of experience. We would rather regard him as the best apprentice to purify our consciousness from the "devil's workshop".
Blake's poems, such as The Boy Cleaning the Chimney, The Nanny's Song, The Sick Rose, The Tiger's Hymn, etc., which are most quoted and recited by people, can all be regarded as a part of constructing Blake's "prototype of heaven". Ezekiel, a self-comparing boy, saw a religious illusion when he was four years old. He could keep silent with the "white god" in a whisper.
This renaissance is a return to the myth of lyricism and imagination aimed at the disadvantages of the times. These people praise beauty and compare it to their own mask, but they are deeply saddened by the fate of people in the world and think that they have destroyed the mask of "beauty" of writers. So rabelais staged satire, Bunyan staged sermon, Marlowe staged parody and exaggeration, and of course, amazing satire, while Blake staged naivety.
In the meeting with Catherine, a country girl who accompanied him all his life, Blake absorbed fairy tales and chastity in the hearts of ordinary people, and compared with his own experience and imagination, he referred to many fairy tale fables that have been carried out and circulated since the Middle Ages, and added his own unique image creativity. Blake left us/kloc-The Wedding of Heaven and Hell, the most important poetry collection in the 8th century-an imaginary hymn, a song of innocence and experience. If the former is for those who continue to teach after marriage, then the latter is more a New Year's book for primary school students or a golden luminous toy given by Santa Claus. But I prefer to think that Blake built the grand and solemn church top floor in our world, where the proverbs of ideal and reality shine, reminding us of the purity and solemnity of the Virgin Mary at all times.
Blake never denied that he was a man created by naive imagination, but his contemporaries were puzzled not only by his strange behavior and enthusiastic energy, but also by his profound and respectable appearance. Blake was obviously not a writer who wrote for his physical fate at that time. Like Arthur Rambo, he found refuge and belief in "Paradise Poetry", which disturbed the senses to varying degrees based on mysterious and fantastic experiences and led to freedom and praise. Perhaps this is the most important experience and value left by Blake. Blake's bold expressions of "the cry of roses" and "the truth is always hidden in the crazy twilight" have found us some mysterious experience paths extending from "the dark chimney" to "the rose paradise".
Blake's poem "At the end of the wasteland, fingers can touch the sky" inspired Spanish painters greco and Dali. In "Soft Time" and "Fable Imagination of Spanish Civil War", da expressed his affirmation and praise to the greatest poet of18th century with the pen of genius.