This blog contains examples of ekphrasis verse in structured prose forms and will describe various pieces of art, paintings ,artist styles, art school genres and will be sometimes be accompanied with some of my artwork to assist the reader/viewer and hopefully encourage others to pursue this poetic form which uniquely thus encompasses two forms of art.
REVERSE EKPHRASIS & EMAGI
The art of creating a visual response to a piece of writing is known as a reverse ekphrasis ie the inverse of the centuries old poetic form of ekphrasis.The most well known example being Charles Demuth 'Figure 5' based upon a W C Williams poem.
EMAGI is a recent variation of a reverse ekphrasis derived by the advent of the widespread use of hand held digital communication devices -where words in digital symbols /letters can be represented as a shape
and uses a poet's poem to inspire the digitised 'drawing'as below
EMAGI a reverse ekphrasis -where words in digital symbols /letters are represented as a shape to reflect a poem's poem title
Wallace Stevens'ICE CREAM'
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EKPHRASIS examples
MIRROR,
MIRROR
To paint
oneself as others
see.Perhaps
the most difficult
challenge
in art, maybe, impossible
to
fulfil.The mirror into which
we
look,contains a bias,no outside
opinion
may bridge or brook,sans
the
experience of biographic
years to
understand and thus
oftimes
overlook.We see now
with
autobio sight the lines and
furrows.Yesterdays
that once
were
tomorrows,etched deep
in lines
watered by sweat and
tears
and so our portrait will
inevitably
visage our fears
weathered year upon year
EKPHRASIS ENTERS
Light to light which illumes
as colour fills our eyes and enters
our mood.To trigger stark sensations
colour floats on white,yellow
blue and red in parallel luminous
blocks.This conceptual mirror
meticulous,yet of the common
place, a still life set free in
pervading symbols of the night.
The senses merge to become a
dialogue, a commentary in words.
SEE ALSO MY BLOG POIEMA EKPHRASIS for examples from my hardback book
SEE ALSO MY BLOG POIEMA EKPHRASIS for examples from my hardback book
