alt Hacker NewsBlake's and Durer's artwork are two of my favorites.
What I find so teasingly difficult to explain is that despite being so different there is some shared aesthetic value between them that I cannot quite pin down in words.
Perhaps their strong geometric undertones and a certain muscularity in them.
Non-“art first”, cosmological (in the religious sense), sketch-forward detail as principal expressive form… I mean one studied the other right? And the author of this piece wrote about Durer as well