"In the Musée des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden Auden's poem is one of the most famous examples of ekphrasis: the recreation in words of a work of art. It describes Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape With ...

This year's much-anticipated "Ekphrasis" exhibit opens Wednesday at the Artists' Co-op in Mendocino. The annual group exhibit is inspired by "ekphrasis," an ancient Greek word that means "to speak out ...

When Bloomington poet Patsy Rahn entered The Venue to choose a piece of artwork to inspire her next poem, there were about five left to choose from, she said. She looked around the room for ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Young Marie-Clémentine worked as a seamstress, for a florist, in a market, and, the story goes, as a circus ...

Ekphrasis is a literary mode that spans the entire breadth of literature, from Achille’s shield to Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’. Defined by James Heffernan as “the verbal representation of graphic ...

EKPHRASIS A FEW WORDS ABOUT ART- a slightly eccentric, look at Art from 12 viewpoints, painters, subjects, Forgers, viewers, Art we love and hate, some serious, some not. Everything from why Sir Henry ...

Courtesy photo / This work by Cara Livorio is one in the “Return to Eden” exhibit now on display through Dec. 23. The artist’s works inspired the play “Ekphrasis” written by Scott Riner, who adapted ...