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Medium and Message: Monotypes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/27/medium-and-message-monotypes/

<p>Many notable painters have also made their own prints, and the two arts have informed one another. We’ve seen this most recently in the paintings of Félix Vallotton, where his late works have become simplified in the way that’s often used when making successful prints. A few artists have gone one step further and produced images that combine both techniques, where their work consists of a painted print.</p>
<p>Most forms of printmaking involve the production of a plate of metal or wood in which cuts or marks are made. The surface is then covered in printing ink, and the paper (or other medium) is then pressed against that to transfer patterns of ink onto it. Monotypes are different in that the plate remains intact, and the image to be printed is formed on its surface before making a single impression from it. As with most types of printmaking, there are many variations.</p>
<p>In 1794, William Blake had perfected his colour illuminated printing process, in publishing a series of illuminated books, and the following year he used it to produce a limited run of twelve large colour paintings. These formed the first major collection of paintings he offered for sale: one mark of the importance that he accorded them was his use of the term <em>fresco</em> to describe their medium.</p>
<p>In fact, they weren’t made using a technique that resembled fresco painting at all. Although there remains some debate as to exactly what he did, the process was probably:</p>
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'Wiliam Blake Now' by John Higgs is a short, erudite and inspiring argument for the continuing relevance of Britain's most contested poet.

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A white male hand holding a copy of 'William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever' by John Higgs, in a hotel room.

My first new books this year... I was a big #Tintin fan as a kid, so these covers drew my attention - somehow I had completely missed B&M (likely reason: according Wikipedia these were not translated to Finnish back in the day, only recently). The start of the 1st book looks word heavy, so a good excuse to try to brush up some #French.

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“ #NorthropFrye, one of the great critic scholars of #Blake, said he should be called a visionary, because he communicates via images, whereas Frye was inclined to feel that a mystic was someone who communicated by paradox or illusion.” fivebooks.com/best-books/w...

William Blake

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Everybody clap, I wrote and completed actual #fanfiction for a #Blake's exchange! Other than one drabble, it's been literally decades since I did that. Whee!!!

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Reading Visual Art: 236 Carpenter

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/21/reading-visual-art-236-carpenter/

<p>Until the Industrial Revolution brought the wide availability of iron, and even well into the twentieth century, the carpenter who worked wonders in wood was one of the key trades. It’s thus odd that remarkably few paintings show carpenters at work, at least until the middle of the nineteenth century.</p>
<p>They also play no role in the best-known classical myths, with the exception of one painting by Piero di Cosimo.</p>
<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_64504" style="width: 1200px;"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/dicosimovulcanaeolus.jpg"><img alt="SSI481345" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64504" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/dicosimovulcanaeolus.jpg?w=940" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-64504">Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522), Vulcan and Aeolus (c 1490), tempera and oil on canvas, 155.5 × 166.5 cm, National Gallery of Canada Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Piero sometimes assembled his own mythical narratives, such as that in <em>Vulcan and Aeolus</em> from about 1490. From the left the figures are a river god, Vulcan forging a horseshoe, a figure (possibly Aeolus, keeper of the winds) riding a horse, a man curled asleep in a foetal position, a couple and their infant son, and four carpenters erecting the frame of a building. Among the animals are a giraffe and a camel. It’s thought this sho

Do read our recent #review of Denae Dyck's "Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination"! It's by Taten Shirley, & here's William #Blake's wonderful "When the morning stars sang together" on the cover, a brilliant choice https://www.victorianweb.org/religion/reviews/dyck.html