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Unread 01-19-2015, 11:03 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Originally Posted by Sharon Passmore View Post
Does a painting have meter? rhyme and off rhyme?
I think The Conversation by Matisse does. The artist in his studio pajamas rhymes with the unyielding tree trunk. His wife-to-be rhymes with more yielding things--the tree's leafy canopy and the ponds.

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What about imagery in poetry? Visual art is all imagery so how can that be compared?
Well, in the painting above, there's a bit more than just imagery going on--the big ol' NON (French "no") spelled out in the ironwork is definitely a verbal aspect. But that's atypical.

I think compositional allusions might be one equivalent to poetry's use of imagery, in that they compare and contrast things in the work itself with things from other experience. Would Goya's The Third of May 1808 be as effective if it weren't evoking a crucifixion scene?
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