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01-17-2015, 11:47 AM
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Why poets smell like yaks
Now that the title got you in here.....
Recently there has been some discussion about the dismal ratio of views to comments in the art forum.
7 - 939
6 - 1,546 really?
4 - 943......
Let's have a little fun with this. I invite all the poet types around here to comment on some of these artworks as though they were poems.
Don't worry about the age of a thread, this forum is very slow, it won't be a bit of trouble for old threads to pop up again.
How about it?
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01-19-2015, 10:36 AM
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What aspects of visual art can be likened to poetry?
Does a painting have meter? rhyme and off rhyme?
What about imagery in poetry? Visual art is all imagery so how can that be compared?
Can an image be compared to a type of poem, as though it were like a sonnet or a double dactyl or free verse?
Does the phrase "show don't tell" apply? I think it does but is it more difficult in visual media?
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01-19-2015, 11:03 AM
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Okay, I'll play.
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Originally Posted by Sharon Passmore
Does a painting have meter? rhyme and off rhyme?
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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?
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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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01-19-2015, 11:18 AM
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I'll join in. Off to think about it.
In the past we've had one or two really good cross-over themes - remember the responses to each others' processes?
Let's hope this takes off.
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01-19-2015, 01:52 PM
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What Matisse says about painting applies to poetry or at least to mine. What does he say? I'll go and find it.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter—a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Devoid, really, of any subject matter at all. That's the stuff!
A aintr fills his canvas with paint. A poet fills his page with words. It doesn't matter what they say so long as they are beautiful words. Or the right words if you like..
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01-19-2015, 02:34 PM
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Matisse ended up cutting out paper birds.
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02-27-2015, 10:20 PM
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When I read through this thread, I thought immediately of the Asian form of 'haiga.' It is generally a short poem in haiku form paired with a picture. My understanding is that the poem should not describe the picture; they are independent, capable of existing each on their own. But the haiku is better because of what the picture adds to the insight found in that haiku, and likewise vice versa.
The trouble, if you want to call it that, is that in much so-called modern haiga, the picture is a direct visual representation of the haiku. In other words, the haiku speaks of a man walking in winter, the picture shows a person walking in winter. The picture is to show the essence of the haiku, not a concrete representation of it.
Just my two cents.
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02-28-2015, 04:57 AM
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Lorraine, I find that very interesting and it gives me an idea for a challenge. Do you mind if I use your post as a quote in the challenge destructions?
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02-28-2015, 01:42 PM
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Sharon,
Fine by me. I'll look forward to seeing what your challenge is.
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02-28-2015, 02:36 PM
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Thank you, Lorraine!
Last time Sharon set a challenge it was a brilliant one and I've kept the work I made in response to it. I'm looking forward to another.
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