Nerdwriter Video Explores William Blake's Unclassifiable Art

Evan Puschak, known as Nerdwriter, released a video examining William Blake's radical, unclassifiable art. Blake, active in the late 1700s and early 1800s, was a poet, painter, and printmaker who synthesized these disciplines into unified works like 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' and his illuminated prophetic books. He invented his own printing technique to design, write, etch, color, and print his books himself. The Royal Academy of Arts, founded during Blake's adolescence, imposed strict aesthetic standards, but Blake defied specialization by combining words and images. Morris Eaves, author of 'The Cambridge Companion to William Blake,' is quoted describing Blake's choice as living 'in incommensurable neighborhoods of meaning.' Blake's illustrations of classics like Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' and the Biblical Book of Job are highlighted. The video argues that Blake's work sought to reunify reality, which man has fragmented through rules and categories.