Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch
As sometimes happens, a quote I choose can go either way. I am pondering books (also code for words, writing, poetry...) today and hence the link to this; altho clearly it could also form the basis of an art-like ponder.
Whichever way it goes I love how it animates both art forms; how it values them both; and how it suggests that one can be an expression of the other, albeit in a different form.
Taking the poetry perspective, I think this is exactly what poems attempt to do - to create words pictures in our mind. By so accurately and eloquently describing a circumstance, an object, an experience; one can fill in the feelings around it and experience a sense of it within our bodies as well as in our minds.
We can see the empty room, and go further to perhaps smell the mustiness; to hear the creaking... and to feel the cold.
So for me, good poetry is perhaps more than a painting that speaks; it is also a movie or video watched; an experience felt; senses stimulated; and emotions expressed as I read words that take me along with them...
Plutarch
As sometimes happens, a quote I choose can go either way. I am pondering books (also code for words, writing, poetry...) today and hence the link to this; altho clearly it could also form the basis of an art-like ponder.
Whichever way it goes I love how it animates both art forms; how it values them both; and how it suggests that one can be an expression of the other, albeit in a different form.
Taking the poetry perspective, I think this is exactly what poems attempt to do - to create words pictures in our mind. By so accurately and eloquently describing a circumstance, an object, an experience; one can fill in the feelings around it and experience a sense of it within our bodies as well as in our minds.
We can see the empty room, and go further to perhaps smell the mustiness; to hear the creaking... and to feel the cold.
So for me, good poetry is perhaps more than a painting that speaks; it is also a movie or video watched; an experience felt; senses stimulated; and emotions expressed as I read words that take me along with them...
the wonder and magic of Art
ReplyDeleteYes Mo - and sorry for mobbing so slack!
Deletehow every word counts in a poem ... and how pictures like this one go beyond words ...
ReplyDeleteIt's true isn't it Liz, how they are sort of siblings or something - each adding an element to the other....
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