{"id":821762,"date":"2026-07-23T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821762\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:31:24","slug":"unclassifiable-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821762\/","title":{"rendered":"Unclassifiable Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Blake\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Blake<\/a> (aka \u201cthe patron saint of unclassifiable artists\u201d) as an example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XUmgIQIpg-E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Puschak\u2019s latest video<\/a> explores how society often rejects artists whose work doesn\u2019t fit neatly into established categories and frameworks of criticism and commerce.<\/p>\n<p>What you\u2019re seeing here, these are not paintings. They\u2019re prints of engravings from Blake\u2019s illuminated books, which he designed, wrote, etched, colored, and printed himself using a technique that he invented. These extraordinary books are works of art that mix and synthesize categories. And as a result, the art world of the late 17 and early 1800s didn\u2019t really know what to make of them. And Blake never sold more than a handful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using William Blake (aka \u201cthe patron saint of unclassifiable artists\u201d) as an example, Evan Puschak\u2019s latest video explores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-821762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}