Baroque B*tches - An Art History Gossip Podcast
William Blake: The Red-Flag Dragon!!!!
October 31, 20251h 13m · 11,244 words
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HAPPY BAROQUE B-VERSARY TO ALL THOSE WHO CELEBRATE! I know we certainly do! This year we're doing it up BIG with one of the most SPOOKY haunty painters/engravers/printmakers/poet of all time. the illustrious WILLIAM BLAKE! Yes this man definitely knows how to make evil SEXY and we're going to get into all of it. after all you can't have good without EVIL!
Highlighted moments
he called reynolds a hypocrite and accused him of trying to depress art by stripping it of imagination
“he wasn't feeling the lack of control that an illustrator has when it comes to putting everything together so that's what he did he put everything together so our boy invented a printmaking technique called illuminated printing”
“William uses a fictional allegorical figure named Orc and Orc is the personification of this duality thing he was conceptualizing in his first book Orc is a symbol of rebellion and fights for liberty but if his rebellious nature goes unchecked he can become destructive”
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