SYLLABUS
FOR
PAINTING WITH IMAGES AND WORDS
March 24: Introduction
The Art of Poetry
Definition and brief history of Ekphrasis
Discussion
Similarities and differences between poetry and painting as art forms
Pieter Brueghel: The Fall of Icarus
W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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Homework for March 31. Links to all of the paintings are below.
Depiction of a Moment in Time
Greek vase paintings
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
Paolo Uccello: St. George and the Dragon
U.A. Fanthorpe: Not my Best Side
Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus
John Galsworthy: Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus'
Rafael Alberti : Botticelli (arabesque)
Henri Rousseau: The Sleeping Gypsy
J. Patrick Lewis: The Sleeping Gypsy
Pablo Picasso: Guernica
Jane Yolen: Guernica ( After Picasso)
Paul Eluard: Victoire de Guernica /Victory of Guernica
Edward Hopper: NIghthawks
Joyce Carol Oates: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
David Finkel: More Light
Wolf Wondratschek: Nighthawks: After Edward Hopper's Painting
Additional examples ( not for class discussion)
Seurat: La Grande Jatte / Adriano Spatola ( translated by
Paul Vangelisti, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the
Grande Jatte
Rembrandt: The Nighwatch/Kim Crimson Lyrics ( song) by
William Scott BRuford, David Francis Cross, James Palmer,
Robert Fripp
Pieter de Hooch, Courtyards in Delft/ Derek Mahon, Courtyards in
Delft
Francisco di Goya, El Tres de mayo/ Seamus Heamey, Summer 1969
Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam/ R. S. Thomas, Threshold
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