(9 Sep 2019) UK WILLIAM BLAKE ART ++Art Watch replay++
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London, UK - 9 September 2019
1. Various of Europe The Ancient of Days by William Blake (Frontispiece 1827)
2. Pan of illustrations for John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (left to right) "Christian Reading in his Book", "Christian Meets the Evangelist", "Christian Pursued by Obstinate and Pliable"
3. Various of "The Man in the Iron Cage" (1824-27)
4. Close of illustration for the "Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1824-27)
5. Various of "The Ghost of a Flea" (1819-20)
6. Various of Tate Director Alex Farquharson looking at "The House of Death" (1795-1805)
7. Close tilt down of "The House of Death" (1795-1805)
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain
"He leaves a huge legacy and is picked up not not just by writers and artists but also musicians, you know rock music for example, someone like Bob Dylan or Patti Smith. You see it in their lyrics. So you know through all kinds of 20th century figures Blake is an artist we know, whether we've seen and read the work directly, or we know it from the wider culture."
9. Various of colour print titled "Pity" (1795)
10. Various of "The Night of Enitharmon's Joy" formerly called "Hecate" (1795)
11. Various of "Elohim Creating Adam" (1795-1805)
12. Wide of "In the House of Death"
13. Various of "Satan Exulting over Eve (1795)
14. Close of "Nebuchadnezzar" (1795-1805)
15. Various of "Newton" (1795-1805)
16. Mid of curator Amy Concannon looking at Blake's illustrations from Revelations
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amy Concannon, Curator, Tate Britain
"Blake's politics are very difficult to define. He was living through very tumultuous times over on the continent, there was revolution in France. The authorities in Britain were becoming increasingly scared that social unrest would break out here and that the political situation really wasn't very stable. Blake believed that that instability was potentially an opportunity, an opportunity for a better society to emerge, a more fair society. He was against capitalism. He thought the expansion of the British Empire was distasteful. So many people really feel that those beliefs that he held then in the 1790s really resonate now with them today too."
18. Various of "God Judging Adam" (1795)
19. Various of "The Good and Evil Angels" (1795-1805)
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amy Concannon, Curator, Tate Britain
"Within the Bible he also found a lot of imagery there to inspire him. We're standing in front of some of his most vivid and wild images taken from the Book of Revelation of the day of judgment in which the Great Red Dragon comes to unleash terror on those who have sinned."
21. Various of people looking at William Blake's pictures
22. Wide zoom in of main exhibition hall
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amy Concannon, curator, Tate Britain
"Blake was thinking about the contrast between America and Europe at that time. Europe he saw as being very much tied down and tethered to an old order that was unfair and that was too entrenched in old, centuries old ways. Whereas America was a land of new opportunity."
24. Tilt up to "The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan (left) and "The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth (1805) (right)
25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain
26. Wide zoom into entrance of Blake exhibition at Tate Britain
LEADIN:
Visionary artist, printmaker and poet, William Blake struggled to be understood and appreciated during his lifetime.
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