Word: blakean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimson, a prey to the same tumescent, Blakean mysticism as Jimson, and an example of the outsider used as a corrective lens through which human absurdities may be studied...
...emerged from a backwater of painting, Germany, at the start of the 19th century. They inherited no secure historical position. Their diversity was extreme. Some left Germany for Rome and Raphael; others remained at home, seeking a continuity with the Gothic past; their images ran a gamut from Blakean vision to the tightest realism. From this jumble rose a group whose imagination transcended the constraint of their circumstances; they are represented in a fascinating show, "German Painting in the 19th Century," which opened last week at the Yale University Art Gallery...
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