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Indepth Arts News:
"Poetic License : Works by Gallery Artists"
2010-12-07 until 2010-12-30
First Street Gallery
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
First Street Gallery is pleased to present Poetic License, an exhibition of artworks inspired by pieces of poetry. The show runs from December 7 to December 30, 2010. A reception for the artists will be held Saturday, December 11th,3 to 5PM. The artists in the exhibition are Nancy Balliett, Jessica Bartlet, Sally Benton,
Teresa Dunn, Suzi Evalenko, Hank Feeley, Wendy Gittler, Penny Kronengold, Michele Liebler, Mari Lyons, Rallou Malliarakis, Bonnie Miller, Kathi Packer,
Tracy Powers, Erin Raedeke, Dana Saulnier, Lisa Zwerling. First Street Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com.
Poetry and Painting have much in common and a rich history of
cross-inspiration. The poet artist is a well known figure in Eastern and
Western art. To name but a few: the Chinese painter, calligrapher, poet and
dramatist, Xu Wei; William Blake (whose paintings and etchings are
inextricably linked to his poetry); Victor Hugo (known mostly for his poetry
and prose, who produced more than 4000 'very modern' pen and ink drawings);
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (who influenced the European Symbolists and
foreshadowed the Aesthetic movement); E.E. Cummings (whose little known oils
and watercolors led to his experiments with poems as visual objects on the page).
Other poets who were very closely allied with visual artists though they did
not paint themselves "and many of whom were important art critics of their
time" call to mind Charles Baudelaire (a precursor of the Symbolist poets
Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mallarma whose work inspired the Nabis and later
Futurism, Dadaism and Surrealism); Guillaume Apollinaire (who collaborated
with Picasso, Derain, Chagall, and Duchamp, among others, joined the Puteaux
branch of the Cubist Movement and coined the term Surrealism); and the poet,
critic and former Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MOMA, Frank
O'Hara, whose poetry was heavily influenced by Pollock and Kline and de
Kooning and the 'imaginative realism' of Freilicher and Rivers.
Beyond the individual poets and painters lies a fundamental objective which
poetry and art share. To paraphrase Mallarma, the poet suggests and evokes
rather than describes. In much the same way, the collector and critic Leo
Stein described the artist as "he who deals with imponderables." Both the
poet and the artist concern themselves with composition, in which, Stein
noted, "There is a kind of fusion, an interpenetration, an action at a
distance, and not merely a neighborhood relation between the words of a poem
or the colors of a picture."
The works in this show do not seek to translate the lines of poetry which
appear on the wall beside them. Rather, they are autonomous, self-contained
visual poems.
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