learn from Yeats Life ofBlake that the true name of the earlier Irish in culling abstract ideas for more facile expressionin sculpture. And sculpture with a brush—howadroit must be the touch ! The prominence of Idea is ably illustrated insome ol the drawings herewith reproduced.Mad suggests a… … artist-poet was also ONeill.Miss ONeill has drawn her inspiration from such an equally living fount ofsymbolism and allegory as produced Blakescelebrated ghost of a flea. This same tendencyto substitute an image for an idea which cloudedthe meaning of much of Blakes poetry, heightensMiss ONeills…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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