{"id":109520,"date":"2019-09-09T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/09\/william-blake-review-blazing-heresies-from-the-artist-who-blows-constable-and-turner-away\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:37:40","slug":"william-blake-review-blazing-heresies-from-the-artist-who-blows-constable-and-turner-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109520","title":{"rendered":"William Blake review \u2013 blazing heresies from the artist who blows Constable and Turner away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Britain, LondonWe rightly acclaim his writing, but this exhibition brings us Blake the consummate visual artist, depicter of humanity\u2019s divided natureThe poster for Tate Britain\u2019s exhibition of William Blake uses the three Rs to sell this icon of the Napoleonic age to the turbulent Britons of 2019: \u201cRebel, Radical, Revolutionary.\u201d It may seem an over-eager attempt to contemporise him \u2013 but Blake was all these and more. You could add pacifist (albeit a militant one who once got arrested after a heated debate with a soldier) and anti-racist, for as Blake\u2019s devastating portrayal of a hanged slave in this show illustrates, he passionately protested against Africa\u2019s subjugation. Related: Heavenly visions of hell: Alan Moore on the sublime art of William Blake Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/sep\/09\/william-blake-review-blazing-heresies\" target=\"_blank\">William Blake review \u2013 blazing heresies from the artist who blows Constable and Turner away<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tate Britain, LondonWe rightly acclaim his writing, but this exhibition brings us Blake the consummate visual artist, depicter of humanity\u2019s divided natureThe poster for Tate Britain\u2019s exhibition of William Blake uses the three Rs to sell this icon of the Napoleonic age to the turbulent Britons of 2019: \u201cRebel, Radical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}