65 pointsby occurrence9 hours ago2 comments
  • srean6 hours ago
    Blake's and Durer's artwork are two of my favorites.

    What I find so teasingly difficult to explain is that despite being so different there is some shared aesthetic value between them that I cannot quite pin down in words.

    Perhaps their strong geometric undertones and a certain muscularity in them.

    • timoteostewartan hour ago
      Agree with your observation. Blake and Durer both worked in printmaking. I wonder if the processes and aesthetics there resulted in some detectable affinity between their works.
    • hammockan hour ago
      Non-“art first”, cosmological (in the religious sense), sketch-forward detail as principal expressive form… I mean one studied the other right? And the author of this piece wrote about Durer as well
    • B1FF_PSUVM31 minutes ago
      Toss in some Bosch for flavor.

      Those three guys could wipe the floor with most of modern art.

      (The Blake painting is tucked away in an almost-attic of the now "Tate Britain" old building in a quiet out of the way street, while the "Tate Modern" blockhouse graces the Thames south bank, mostly filled with glitzy trash. So it goes.)

  • s5300an hour ago
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