Golden Oxen's First Amendment Forum

                             
                                                       


This portrait represents the proto-cubist style -- a forerunner to cubism.

William Blake

    1757–1827
    Nationality: British

William Blake was a British poet, painter and printmaker. He was also a maverick, rebelling against authority in all its forms. This is clear from poems such as The Tyger and Jerusalem, as well as from his art, where he operated entirely outside the mainstream.

   
     


     

                       Eve Tempted by the Serpent


     

                      Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

       


       
                                     The Ponte alle Grazie, Florence, Italy

           
            
                                           Dialogue


              
                                                       The World We Live In     


         
                                                        Underground   

Carel Victor Morlais Weight                                       
 

    1908–1997
    Nationality: British                           

(b London, 10 Sept. 1908; d London, 13 Aug. 1997). British painter. In the Second World War he served with the Royal Engineers and Army Education Corps and was appointed an Official War Artist in 1945, working in Austria, Greece, and Italy. He began teaching at the Royal College of Art in 1947 and was professor of painting there from 1967 until his retirement in 1973. Weight was something of a maverick figure (‘I don't like the art world very much.

               

        A visitor looks at a sound & light show in Les Baux-de-Provence, France, on March 25. The show is part of the exhibition 'Klimt & Vienna, a Century of Gold & Colours,' & is uses multimedia to take visitors on a journey through 100 years of Viennese painting to the heart of the colorful works of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt & the artists he inspired.