An Essay on Pied Beauty

Acrylic on Paper 14" x 11" Available

$310.00 USD

A painting with reflections on Pied Beauty, a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins

From the post about this painting: "I chose to write about things I could pick out in the poem, such as alliteration, the speed at which words could be read in order, and the way words gave a picture in my mind. I felt I had failed because I didn't get to the meaning of the poem.

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So why have I told you this wordy story about my college assignment? Well, as I share my paintings with you, sometimes I hear, "I just don't get it," or "Does this mean ..." or maybe "Is that supposed to be a ..." My first response to this poem in that class was just like that. I could appreciate the technical aspects of it, but thought I wasn't getting it. (And I don't think I was.) But now, partly through recognizing the technique, I feel the poem. I see it in my mind's eye - not a photograph, but an abstract Pied Beauty of God's creation.

I share my thoughts and techniques and tools here in my blog to give you an introduction to my work - to abstract painting - but I really hope you will feel my paintings. I hope you will be drawn by something and be unable to forget a lingering sweetness or beauty. And that when you see them, it will be a little like seeing an old friend."

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