For hundreds of years, folks have been asking what’s artwork? Is artwork a query? A solution? An expression? A press release? Possibly it’s sheer leisure.
It’s a query we should reply for ourselves, particularly artists and writers.
I consider the very best artwork entertains whereas it provokes thought or emotion, however that’s simply my private opinion. You would possibly search artwork that makes you snicker or fills you with awe. Some choose artwork that’s masterfully crafted, whatever the content material or messages it communicates.
Feeling Poetry
“Portray is poetry that’s seen somewhat than felt,
and poetry is portray that’s felt somewhat than seen.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
On this planet of artwork, poetry is especially tough to outline as a result of it may be so many issues. Think about Dr. Seuss’s frolicking tales written in meter versus the social-political poetry of Adrienne Wealthy or the tribute poetry of Robert Frost and also you quickly understand that poetry’s goal is de facto the poet’s goal.
When Leonardo da Vinci talks a couple of portray as a poem that’s seen (versus learn), I feel he’s making on statement about artwork, one thing just like the concept that “an image is value a thousand phrases.” A single portray can categorical concepts and feelings that will take a thousand phrases or extra to convey in poetry or prose.
However when he talks about poetry as a portray that’s felt somewhat than seen, he digs into the center of what poetry will be — textual content that strikes folks emotionally. I’d increase on that to notice that usually poetry (and different artwork) provokes feelings which might be troublesome and even unimaginable to place into clear phrases. Typically you learn a poem and it makes you are feeling or perceive one thing, however you couldn’t presumably clarify it in concrete phrases, and should you might, it could take an essay, and even a complete ebook, to convey what the poem communicated — what it made you really feel — in a couple of strains.
That’s the magic of artwork and poetry. In the end, it’s a type of communication that’s virtually psychic in nature.
