Fic writers! What Fine Art painting symbolises your writing process/feel?

[daphneblithe]

I got wondering about this after @hansbekhart made an amazing comment to me about that fic I wrote (sorry, I am mentioning that again, but this time in the service of something greater, i.e. hopefully finding out what YOUR answers are about your own process!).

Hans said:

"There's very much the feeling of a dream throughout the whole story, these sort of extra sensory, just off kilter details? Like the way you describe the light feels like a de Chirico painting to me."

I think that lovely analogy is spot on – the slightly surreal and sometimes oddly place-dislocatedness that’s in some de Chirico is v much in tune with what I am trying to capture!



And this got me thinking, what kinds of painting capture the writing experience for me – and I bet we all have different responses! What is yours?

For me, my writing process, and indeed my general aesthetic, feels like Caravaggio –vivid self-generated luminousness of the figures, against encroaching darkness (lol OK Angst-with-Happy-Ending is clearly where my heart lies):



(And on the subject of luminous foreground figures, the Pre-Raphaelites are obviously huge for this fic, given that I STEAL THE TITLE from one of them :rolls about ) Here’s a detail from Edward Burne-Jones’s painting, er, Love Among the Ruins.




(Sorry, Ed. :) )

Comments

[the_genderman]

My immediate thought was Edward Hopper.

Then I had to stop and consider why his was the first name to pop into my head.

I'm going to go with his painting are bright and colorful, clear, but a little fuzzy, and often isolated and/or lonely. I almost never have very many characters in a fic, because I can't handle fleshing out too many of them. If I have more than 2-4 characters, they start to turn into cameos, appearing for one purpose and disappearing once it's been fulfilled. (Also, I'm always a little surprised and excited when I get readers because I've learned not to expect many people to want to pay attention to me.)

Also, I love how stark his lights are darks are. It feels very concise to me. Like, I'm a little fuzzy, but also, I find it very hard to make myself go into a lot of detail just to flesh out the story, to add more words. It is what it is.

[entwinedlove]

See, this sounds like something deep and meaningful I should be able to comment on. If I remembered absolutely anything from the two semesters of Art History I took in college. Alas, the only thing I remember was how I found the class so interesting yet couldn't pass any of the exams. Memorizing names and dates and facts just did not work, no matter how interesting the anecdotes sprinkled throughout the lessons.

Though, Jackson Pollock does come to mind. Though that might be because that's how it feels when I struggle. Just drip and fling words at the screen, maybe whatever sticks is worth something.

Edit: Does Pollock count as fine art? Or just modern art?

[daphneblithe]

What a FANTASTIC answer! Absolutely! it totally fits. And there is that lovely intimacy and attention to the individual in his work.

[daphneblithe]

<3 <3 Pollock is awesome! And I think this question can encompass anything including graffiti and photography and sculpture and cartoons tbh! Any visual medium. :D