the moon's favors: William Blake displayed in Russia for the first time

2012/06/12

William Blake displayed in Russia for the first time

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow is presenting “William Blake and visionary British art” from 29 November 2012 to 19 February 2013. Around 110 works by Blake from the Tate’s collections, as well as from other British collections, including many of his most famous works such as his Ghost of a Flea will be available for the Moscow public to admire. It is the first exhibition dedicated to Blake to take place in Russia. The exhibition is a collaborative project between the Tate, the British Council, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.more

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine