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by Art Enrico
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William Blake was a poet, painter, and mystic. He claimed to speak with Old Testament prophets and to have actually seen the face of God when he was... more
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11 oz.
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William Blake was a poet, painter, and mystic. He claimed to speak with Old Testament prophets and to have actually seen the face of God when he was a child. He was a devoted Christian, but believed in a Christianity very different than mainstream Christianity in his day or ours. In Blake’s cosmology, the god of the Old Testament, depicted in his very famous illustration “The Ancient of Days,” is not a positive figure. In fact God the Father was an evil figure, an oppressive law-giver. Blake was suspicious of both Reason and Science. He believed deeply in Art and that imagination was the true way to God.
My painting was based on an illustration from Blake’s poem “The First Book of Urizen,” printed in 1794. Urizen and The Ancient of Days were one and the same person. Blake described Urizen as “A self-contemplating shadow, in enormous labors occupied.” When I read that, I was put in mind of a quote from the Mundaka Upanishad: “The deathless Self meditated upon himse...
Married; self taught; native-born Earthling. All artwork and descriptions in this gallery are copyright Arthur Enrico. All rights are reserved. Copying, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the Artist is strictly prohibited.
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