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Visual Poems

October 8, 2012 by Laraine Armenti, visual artist

Some graduate school assignments are given to expand use of materials, to produce unexpected results, and to reveal untapped aspects of ourselves. In one assignment, we were asked to select two poems and make a drawing of each. One of the poems I chose was "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. I stitched together two pieces of fabric along the center line, and stretched it by wetting and stapling it to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Acrylic, Collage / Color, Drawing, Ink, Oil, Painting, Still-life Indoor, Writing / Poetry Tagged With: diebenkorn, kohn, lichtman, Matisse, robert frost, sylvia plath, velasquez

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