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Tribute Piece: William Blake - The Ancient of Days
Location: Camp Inspiration Church Building
Inspiration Blvd Entrance (North Side Of Building)
Listed Caption:
William Blake (British, 1757-1827)
The Ancient of Days
Relief etching finished in gold, watercolor and Gouache on paper.
Origial work: 9 1/4 x 6 5/8 in.
This powerful depiction of Blake's wrathful, law-giving Character Urizen is perhaps his best-known image. Its composition draws on medieval representations of God creating the universe using the tools of an Architect. Here, the snowy-haired figure kneels down from the sphere of Heaven and attempted to circumscribe the infinity of creation with agolden compass. The Plate, designed as the frontispiece to the prophetic Book Europe, was also issued as a separate print That later acquired the traditional but inaccurate title The ancient of Days.
It recalls Blake's pithy epigram:
To God -
If you have formed a circle to go into
Go into it yourself & see how you would do
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