thanks for posting those sinclair vids - i'll check em out. yeah i've often been disappointed as well when i've seen blake pieces in a gallery, as they're often tiny and a bit blurry. a lot of the books have this issue as well. i think it's to do with the printing? as in, they are reproductions off plates, and the versions we've got are from plates that have been overused. so there will be some amazing versions in existence, but often the ones shown in galleries might have been printed off a plate that had already been used lots of times and thus degraded a little. check the credit slips to see if it was blake's own printing, or one by someone else. there was a recent show at tate liverpool and all the actual prints were credited to someone else ie someone had bought the blake plates and made prints from them.
William Blake.
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I went, it really was as good as i had hoped - had pretty much everything you'd want to see. I suppose one of teh surprises was just how vibrant the colours were - also how small many of the famous images are.
The downside is always just how crowded the exhibition was - making it difficult to see everything.
one thing i found a bit odd i suppose was the trigger warnings about some images containing images of slavery -it's not like anything in Blake's work would ever suggest anything other than absolute abhorrence.
The downside is always just how crowded the exhibition was - making it difficult to see everything.
one thing i found a bit odd i suppose was the trigger warnings about some images containing images of slavery -it's not like anything in Blake's work would ever suggest anything other than absolute abhorrence.
