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.

[daphneblithe]

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