Literature and Art=L.A.R.T

I will call my segments concerning literature aspects and art, L.A.R.T or simply "lart". In my Honors Literature course we are looking at famous writers, mainly those known for their contribution to the "modernism" era. This is generally post-war writers, and those popular in the 1920's. Gertrude Stein, a famous poet during the period is depicted here by her good friend, Pablo Picasso. Picasso is widely known for his importance to cubism. This random and repetitive art movement was equally shocking and not well accepted, as well as revolutionary and guiding. Stein and her brother collected art which opened the door for her friendship with Picasso. Stein wrote a poem, which I feel is cubism in writing. Her popular poem, "Picasso", has an obscure rhythm, and repeats patterns as if you were looking at "Guernica" itself on the wall. I would like to dub Stein as being herself, a cubist poet. Poetry and art are so closely intertwined. Titian expertly introduces this ephemeral quality in painting back in the Venetian Renaissance with his "Pastoral Symphony." The term "poesia" is used to describe paintings as his. This is poetry in motion. Stein has taken pictorial associations of the written word and puts it in reverse--poetry depicting art.

When I myself sit down and write a piece of prose I often feel obligated to show a picture to further emphasize my emotion, or my point. Music can also be intertwined with all these, poetry, art, music, music, art, poetry. Without these one of these things, the other cannot be described. Art describes itself. Gertrude is describing Picasso, and Picasso had captured Gertrude.