Transcript Art and Poetry Powerpoint

Peasant Wedding c. 1568; Oil on wood, 114 x 164 cm (45 x
64 1/2 in); Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
ART AND POETRY
Art
1. Ever since the Roman poet Horace set down in his Ars Poetica
(c. 13 BC) the dictum "ut pictura poesis"--"as is painting, so is
poetry"--the two arts have been put [together].
2. Poets and painters sometimes turn to one another for
inspiration.
3. Painters and illustrators have often been inspired by literature,
especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
4. The critic Richard Altick says, for example, that between 1760
and 1900 there existed around 2,300 paintings based on
Shakespeare's plays alone. These Shakespeare paintings are
only one-fifth of the 11,500 paintings on subjects and scenes
from literature--and we are talking only about paintings done
in England during those years!
5. Numbers indicate the influence of authors on artists.
Questions Asked:
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Is the poem simply a verbal description of the work of
art, or does the poet make conclusions about what the
painting means?
Could you reconstruct the painting from the poem
without actually seeing it?
Why does the poet dwell on some features of the
painting and ignore other aspects of the picture?
Do you agree with the meaning the poet "reads" in the
painting, or do you think the writer misreads it or
warps the scene depicted to personal ends?
Which Comes First?
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What is the difference when you see the painting
and then write a poem?
What did you focus on when you wrote the poem?
 Did
you tell a story?
 Describe the picture?
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What did you like about writing a poem based on
a painting?
OR
What didn’t you like about writing a poem based
on a painting?