Fine Art Poster
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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Hombre tocando una esfera desde una nube - William Blake
Precio habitual
£28.00 GBP
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£28.00 GBP
Precio habitual
Giclée de archivo
Los marcos vienen listos para colgar
Pago seguro
Hecho bajo pedido
Descripción
Una impresión de bellas artes del grabado de William Blake para "Night Thoughts" (Pensamientos nocturnos) de Edward Young, que representa a una figura celestial interactuando con el mundo físico.
Este grabado proviene del ambicioso proyecto de William Blake para ilustrar el extenso poema de Edward Young, "Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality" (Pensamientos nocturnos sobre la vida, la muerte y la inmortalidad). Comisionado por el editor Richard Edwards en 1795, el proyecto ocupó a Blake durante dos años. Produjo más de quinientas acuarelas, de las cuales se seleccionaron cuarenta y tres para el grabado. Esta lámina en particular muestra a una figura emergiendo de una nube, extendiéndose para tocar una esfera terrestre, una metáfora visual de la interacción divina con el mundo físico descrita en el texto de Young.
El enfoque de Blake hacia estas ilustraciones es distintivo. No se limitó a decorar los márgenes del texto. En cambio, integró su imaginería con los versos impresos, creando un diálogo entre la palabra poética y la forma visual. La figura está representada con la musculatura y precisión anatómica características de la formación neoclásica de Blake, sin embargo, la composición posee una cualidad onírica. El contraste entre las nubes etéreas y arremolinadas y la superficie sólida y sombreada de la esfera crea una sensación de escala cósmica. La técnica de grabado se basa en líneas finas y controladas para definir la forma y la sombra, permitiendo que el blanco del papel sugiera luz y presencia espiritual.
Como grabador, Blake era meticuloso. A menudo coloreaba a mano sus grabados, aunque muchas copias de la serie "Night Thoughts" permanecen en monocromo. La obra refleja la preocupación del artista por los temas espirituales y su rechazo a las interpretaciones puramente racionalistas de la existencia. Al colocar la figura humana en contacto directo con el globo, Blake visualiza el argumento del poema sobre la relación del alma con el reino material. Esta pieza ofrece un vistazo a la naturaleza colaborativa de la producción de libros del siglo XVIII y a la singular visión de uno de los artistas más idiosincrásicos de Gran Bretaña.
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Cada impresión se realiza bajo pedido mediante impresión giclée de 12 colores en papel de archivo con certificación FSC. Diseñado en Gran Bretaña e impreso en su centro de producción más cercano para reducir residuos y acelerar la entrega.
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- Impresión giclée de calidad de museo para colores intensos y resistentes a la decoloración
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- Marcos en negro, madera natural, madera oscura o blanco
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Impresión giclée de calidad de museo sobre papel mate de archivo con certificación FSC, con opciones de lienzo y enmarcado.
- Tamaños de papel: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 y B2 (50×70 cm)
- Lienzo: XS (20×30 cm) a grande (60×90 cm)
- Marcos: negro, madera natural, madera oscura o blanco
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Hombre tocando una esfera desde una nube - William Blake
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Desde £28.00 GBP
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Desde £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
William Blake
Blake saw angels in a tree when he was about eight years old, at Peckham Rye in south London. Bright angelic wings, he said, bespangling every bough like stars. When he reported this at home, his father nearly beat him for lying. His mother intervened. He was never sent to school. He later said he was grateful for this, having been spared being flogged into following the style of a fool.
He married Catherine Boucher in 1782. She was illiterate at the time and signed the marriage register with an X. He taught her to read, write, and engrave, and she became his collaborator for the next forty-five years: mixing paint, operating the printing press, hand-colouring plates, and binding the finished pages into covers.
Their working method was Blake's own invention, revealed to him (he said) in a dream by the spirit of his dead brother Robert. Relief etching reversed the standard printmaking process: instead of cutting lines into copper, Blake wrote and drew on the plate in acid-resistant varnish, then dissolved the surrounding metal with acid, leaving text and image raised. This allowed him to compose poetry and illustration simultaneously on a single plate, print them together, then hand-colour each sheet in watercolour. Every copy was therefore unique. Songs of Innocence and of Experience was produced this way. He sold fewer than thirty copies during his lifetime.
In 1803, he physically threw a soldier named John Schofield out of his garden in Felpham. He was charged with assault and with uttering treasonable expressions against the King. He was acquitted at the Chichester assizes in January 1804.
Newton, painted in 1795, shows the scientist as a young man with the body of a Greek god, bent forward at the bottom of a dark ocean, fixing his gaze on a pair of compasses, measuring and drawing on a scroll that appears to project from his own head. It is a painting about the limits of reason: beautiful, precise, and missing everything beyond the edge of the paper. The Ancient of Days, from the same period, depicts his mythological figure Urizen crouching at the edge of a void, reaching down with a compass to measure the darkness below.
He died on 12 August 1827, working on illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. He was buried at Bunhill Fields. The wider recognition came decades later.
He married Catherine Boucher in 1782. She was illiterate at the time and signed the marriage register with an X. He taught her to read, write, and engrave, and she became his collaborator for the next forty-five years: mixing paint, operating the printing press, hand-colouring plates, and binding the finished pages into covers.
Their working method was Blake's own invention, revealed to him (he said) in a dream by the spirit of his dead brother Robert. Relief etching reversed the standard printmaking process: instead of cutting lines into copper, Blake wrote and drew on the plate in acid-resistant varnish, then dissolved the surrounding metal with acid, leaving text and image raised. This allowed him to compose poetry and illustration simultaneously on a single plate, print them together, then hand-colour each sheet in watercolour. Every copy was therefore unique. Songs of Innocence and of Experience was produced this way. He sold fewer than thirty copies during his lifetime.
In 1803, he physically threw a soldier named John Schofield out of his garden in Felpham. He was charged with assault and with uttering treasonable expressions against the King. He was acquitted at the Chichester assizes in January 1804.
Newton, painted in 1795, shows the scientist as a young man with the body of a Greek god, bent forward at the bottom of a dark ocean, fixing his gaze on a pair of compasses, measuring and drawing on a scroll that appears to project from his own head. It is a painting about the limits of reason: beautiful, precise, and missing everything beyond the edge of the paper. The Ancient of Days, from the same period, depicts his mythological figure Urizen crouching at the edge of a void, reaching down with a compass to measure the darkness below.
He died on 12 August 1827, working on illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. He was buried at Bunhill Fields. The wider recognition came decades later.
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
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