"Poetic.Aesthetic." Exhibit Fuses Art, Poetry
January 28, 2011
UMD's Poetic.Aesthetic blends art and poetry and bolsters relationships between artists of different mediums.
UMD's Poetic.Aesthetic blends art and poetry and bolsters relationships between artists of different mediums.By Julie Baughman, The Prince George's Sentinel
The Art Gallery, located in the Art-Sociology building on the University of Maryland campus, is opening its latest exhibit entitled “Poetic. Aesthetic. An Exploration of Creativity in Poetry and Visual Art” — a combination of the written art of poetry with visual arts such as painting, graphic design and multimedia presentation.
Each artist was paired with a poet and given a selection of their poems to preview. The artists were then asked to choose the three poems they liked best to inspire a piece of visual art. The only requirement for their visually artistic interpretation of the poem was that it must include the text somewhere within the piece.
Michael Collier, Professor of English at the University of Maryland and former Maryland State Poet Laureate, was very excited about the blending of the two mediums. Collier though the project would bolster relationships between artists of all different mediums.
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