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Sunday, May 1, 2011

Unknown Face (Blake: Proverbs of Hell)


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Francis Bacon Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) 1955

Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake): Francis Bacon, 1955 (Tate Gallery)



He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake: from Proverbs of Hell, c. 1789



Blake

William Blake, 1757-1827, life mask made in 1823: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Unknown Woman

Life [?] or death [?] mask of Unknown Woman: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Keats

John Keats, 1795-1821, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Princess

Life [?] or death [?] mask of Princess Tolstoya, 1800-1873: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Wordsworth

William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, life mask made in 1815: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Cautious Woman

[Life mask of] Unknown Woman, a "cautious type" i.e. possibly suicidal: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, life mask: photo by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists, 2008 (via Creative Review)

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