THE GESTION OF SPACE IN PAINTING AND POETRY

Year 2017, Volume: 23 Issue: 91, 319 - 332, 25.08.2017

Fahimeh Yasın

Abstract

“Ut pictura poesis?” Everything seems to have already been said in this famous formula

of Horace. But who would think the relations between poetry and painting, to consider from

the point of view of a rivalry or in the perspective of a mere imitation? To think of the

relationship in terms of substitution or adequacy would be blindly look at what is being

played through various connections that take place on the horizon of these two arts. Painting

is even more constantly a powerful creative aliment for writers. Victor Hugo describing in

Les Miserables, the battle of Waterloo composed as a painter, with the means of language.

So many texts come from an image that we want to describe, where the writer tries to give

an equivalent of the painting by the means of the language. One then finds oneself in an

uncertain margin where literary creation is at the same time a subject of writing, an object

of reflection and a starting point for an unusual use of language. To give an account of the

mute speech of painters, a great challenge, is most often only within the reach of poets, who

explore language in the confines of silence. How, in the face of a canvas, will not a writer

be seized by a quasi-immediate relation to the color actually received, lived, filtered by the

system of language? How will poetic space allow the reader to become a spectator of the

page?

Keywords

painting, poetry, poetic space, pictorial space

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