What about Blake? Or was he a one off? What about Exquisite Corpse? Does
that have a relationship to the cut-up technique of Burroughs and Gysin?
Artists spin off anything that snags their imagination. The inter-play is no
doubt helped by friendship and close proximity to an arts community. I'm
thinking here of the relationships between the likes of Dali, Lorca, Bunuel
from their meeting at San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid (and then
Dali getting off with a poet's wife: Gala and Paul Éluard) Dali wrote a
poetic manifesto, L’Âne Pourri and a poem called 'The Metamorphoses of
Narcissus' (after a painting of the same name) : "Narcissus, in his
immobility, absorbed by his reflection with the digestive slowness of
carnivorous plants, becomes invisible." Then of course we have the
relationship between Rodin and Rilke. In terms of Britsh contemporary art,
many of our famous artists collaborate with poets or actually write poetry,
Emin and Hirst to name but two. I often use Emin's work to illustrate the
importance of titles giving a poem context, for instance, the blue shed that
she entitled 'The Last Thing I said Was, Don't Leave me Here'. Anyway, sorry
to ramble on ... poetry and art is one of my 'things'.
X Annie
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