Museum of American Poetics Exhibits

Poets & Painters

This exhibit focuses on the longstanding relationship described by Horace as "Ut pictura poesis" (As is painting, so is poetry).

  

    art poetry
The Long Conversation Between Painting and Poetry
Horace: Ars Poetica
Horace: Ars Poetica
(Rome, 65 BC-8 BC)
   
Lu Chi
Lu Chi (China, 261-303):
Wen Fu (The Art of Writing)
       
    ma yuan
School of Literati Painting
(China, 11th, 12th Century)
 
dante
Dante
(Italy, 1265-1321)
   
        Persian Miniature Painting
Persian Miniature Painting
( Persia, 14th Century)
    Ragamala Painting
Ragamala Painting
(India, 17th Century)
 
wheatley
"To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works." Phillis Wheatley, 1770.
   
  blake
William Blake
(England, 1757-1827)
  Cubism
Cubism
 
      Kenneth Rexroth
"The Cubist Poetry
of Pierre Reverdy"
by Kenneth Rexroth (1969)
    1913 Armory Show
1913 Armory Show
 
blast
Blast No.1, edited by Wyndham Lewis (England, 1914)
   
    William Carlos Williams & Juan Gris
William Carlos Williams
& Juan Gris
  ny poets
Artists and Poets at a Table
 
      Surrealist Writers
Surrealist Writers
  poet speaks
The Poet Speaks of Art
 
rebels
"Rebel Painters and Poets
of the 1950s"
 
    nypoets
"The Artists & Poets of the New York School"
  stevens
Wallace Stevens, "The Relations Between Poetry and Painting", 1951.
   
     Poets on Painters
Poets on Painters
by J.D. McClatchy, 1991
  o'hare
"Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters." Marjorie Perloff, 1997.