Word: elohim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge...