William Blake's The Complaint Of Job

This painting by William Blake which was made in 1786 tells a very important story that you wouldn’t know that by just looking at it. The painting was created in England; Blake spent more than just a little time on the drawing, it had taken up to 2-3 years. The portrait is represented from contemporary art, to Ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian Art. “The Complaint of Job” tells a great and interesting story that can be relative to many of people. Job was the richest man he had all the wealth any man could ask for. The story of Job describes how Satan tries to convince to God that if you take something away from somebody they will lose faith in him, God knew that Job was a faithful believer in him and wouldn’t lose faith. God wanted to prove to Satan that even if he took everything away from Job, that Job still wouldn’t lose his belief
The background in the portrait is a dark setting. Mostly the whole portrait is just dark with the meaning of knowing Job is going through some type of trouble. In the portrait it seems as if the other people that are listening to Job are really attentive to what he is talking about and they have these looks on their faces as a look as of why would this type of things happen to a person like Job. The clothes on all of the people including Job seem baggy as they were in that time; Blake made the portrait with much detail starting from the people in the portrait to the objects in the background and foreground he just did a great job with presenting detail and making it seem as real as possible. William Blake’s intention with creating this was to give the observers a feel for what Job was feeling and how confused Job was on how he had lost everything he ever had and the blessings that God sent him. The portrait is just a realistic drawing overall, due to how you can feel everything that’s going on in the picture by just looking at