Bryan Schulte
William Blake
Blake was an engraver, artist, poet, and visionary, and author of many pieces which were etched, printed, colored, stitched, and sold with the help of his wife Catherine. Even though in life he was neglected, by the early 21st Century Blake was regarded as the earliest and most original of the Romantic poets.
Visions were commonplaces to Blake, and his life and works were intensely spiritual. “His friend the journalist Henry Crabb Robinson wrote that when Blake was four years old, he saw God’s head appear in a window. While still a child he also the Prophet Ezekiel under a tree in the fields and had a vision, according to his first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist”(Britannica).
Blake was christened, married, and buried by the rites of the Church of England, but his creed was likely to outrage the orthodox. He was a religious seeker but not a joiner.
Started his career as an engraver and based his work and his commissions on that type of work. Blake apprenticed James Basire, a highly responsible and conservative line engraver who specialized in prints depicting architecture. While pursuing his career as an engraver, in 1779 Blake enrolled as a student in the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts: His greatest ambition was as an artist was to be an artist and nothing else. His materials were watercolors and paper, not the fashionable oil on canvas, and he painted subjects from the Bible and British history instead of the portraits and landscapes that were in vogue.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake/Blake-as-a-poet
Bryan Schulte
FILM
Art has its own sense of evolution, from paintings in caves of the primitive man to the height of pieces blasted on the sides of buildings. People have their own way to express their ideas and visions in art. Some draw, some write poetry, some paint, and some even create it through music. For me, I favorite way to communicate art is through film making.
Research material
https://www.careersinfilm.com/
https://www.britannica.com/art/history-of-the-motion-picture