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One of the factors I previously identified as causes of the failure of British narrative painting was lack of formal academic training, which was rectified with the formation of the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1769, when they had their first intake of 77 pupils. A decade later, they enrolled one of their most famous artists, William Blake (1757–1827).

Blake had been born in what is now Broadwick Street, Soho, London, and started as a pupil at a drawing school in The Strand in 1767 or 1768. In 1772, as Hogarth did fifty years before, he started a seven-year apprenticeship with James Basire as an engraver. Basire was a traditional line engraver on copper, and Blake would have gained a sound and practical understanding of that craft. Among the tasks which he undertook was to make copies of the royal tombs in Westminster Abbey for the Society of Antiquaries…

A ‘Septolet’

Russian officials claim
Ukraine's planning 
hydroelectric Kakhovka Dam's destructionMoscow intends 
to 
scapegoat 
Kyiv.

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Septolet?

The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen wordswith a break anywhere in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.

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“Georgia O’Keeffe’s early abstractions, although not as well known as her later southwestern paintings, played a pivotal role in the development of American modernism. Grey Blue & Black—Pink Circle is the culmination of O’Keeffe’s Special series, a body of abstract drawings and paintings that she made during the 1920s. She created these works outside the influence of the New York mainstream and before her initial contact with the works of Wassily Kandinsky, whose treatise On the Spiritual in Art had a measurable impact on her later abstract style.

The nodes in the center of the painting recall the headdress of Hopi kachina dancers (and the headdresses of the eponymous kachina dolls); the surrounding whorls of color amplify the suggested motion of the dance and the consonant rhythms of the universe…”

Adapted from

• Eleanor…