My encounters with the work of the early English Romantic painter, engraver and poet William Blake (1757-1827) have been marked by respect, awe and sometimes bewilderment. Respect and awe because both ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...

Call William Blake a poet. Or a prophet. Or a visionary. Or a fool. Or just see William Blake as a white-hot comet, blazing through 18th century Britain's hidebound strictures and persnickety ...

William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...

Possessing an ethereal delicacy, at first seemingly naïve, but in actuality hinting at divine depths, William Blake’s paintings are truly visionary. But as respected as the English poet and painter ...

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye / ?Could frame thy fearful symmetry? - William Blake The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the ...

If painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake’s art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost ...

The artworks of William Blake are known for their highly charged, spiritual energy. Now, they are getting a high-tech new incarnation with “United Visions,” an augmented reality (AR) experience by ...

The 19th-century poet William Blake wrote an unforgettable line in “Auguries of Innocence” denouncing the infringement on freedom: A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all heaven in a rage. Since it was ...

The Index Art Book Fair, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Index Art Book Fair wrapped up its third year this past weekend, presenting 49 international publishers ...