Ten Poems about Art
Ten Poems about Art
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Poems about art have a long and vivid history, and some of our greatest poets have tried to capture in verse the beguiling worlds of colour on canvas. Geoff Dyer’s remarkably wide-ranging selection encourages us to look at familiar and unfamiliar paintings and artists with fresh eyes.
We find ourselves in Vermeer’s studio next door to a rowdy alehouse and meet a Bonnard nude day-dreaming in her bathtub. There’s a contemplative poem capturing the calm of a Vuillard interior, and then there’s life as one of Miró’s dots:
“So here I am, on the edge of animation,
a dream, a dance, a fantastic construction,A child’s adventure.”
from ‘I Would Like to be a Dot in a Painting by Miró’ by Moniza Alvi