Education-Littérature-Art

I would begin the discussion by these words: 

" My glance lingers over what
my indecisive hand registers 
on the strength of the pen of the painter "


      I thank the Department of letters and the arts , first of all, for having invited me in this prestigious seminary on line about the art to the university of California, San Diego. My research work is centred on the aesthetic conciliation between the poetry and the painting. I am aware that this study is complex. Nevertheless, It is necessary to establish the relation between poetry and art. In the already published studies, the critics sometimes forget to specify this ascendancy which changes the face of the literature. It is what I want to try to bring to light with the Creole authors. I want briefly to explain the axes of my study on the painting in the poetry we are going to approach the question of the painting first of all, clarify our subject who is rather paradoxical. My study of the painting in the poetry aims at analyzing the poetics of the ambivalence of two arts belonging to different artistic traditions. It is elaborated from the search for new graphic and plastic forms. Especially since the poetry by its formal variety and its questioning on the being becomes a field of vast study and privileged. My analysis limited itself to corpuses chosen, to know the works of the haitian poet René Depestre and martinican painter José Clavot which went alongside to painters. Actually, the artistic expression indicates this intermediate pictorial space in the arrangement of the words of the poem and especially this insertion of the painting and the drawing in the poetry privileging the visual image in the twentieth century. This insertion allows us to encircle the problem of the poetic image and of the pictorial image. Generally speaking, our work noticed the re-establishment of the interior vision and it try to highlight the specificity and the eclectic character of the poetry through a stylistic study of the processes of writing. The historical memory, while insuring the dialectic of Caribbean culture in the twentieth century, examines a pictorial activity which integrates the poetic frame. Because, it is effectively in the exchange between several arts which lives the poetic language. 
Indeed, the reading of the art critic of the poets includes a historic, aesthetic and poetic axes, it obeys a sequence gathering a key painter José Clavot. During the symposium devoted to Lafcadio Hearn in 1987, José Clavot demonstrated that there could be a Creole perception of the chromatic range, which could be the foundation of a Creole pictorial aesthetics. The main example is Hadriana in all my dreams written by the poet René Depestre where the reality of the textual story is constantly connected with the pictorial fiction. Our analytical reading rest on the aesthetic sets and joins the appropriation of the pictorial techniques of the painters and especially the appropriation of the textual space. Let us add to it, the problematic status of the poem and its corollary, the textual space. That we are in the modernity or in the post modernity, with regard to the question of the painting in the poetry, it is impossible to deny the visual part inherent to the impression of the poem. Especially since it seems to us that it is exactly inside one supposed resemblance between poetry and painting or of their conflicting relation that takes place the poetic moment. Besides, it would be necessary to aim at the analogy beyond the forms reaching the style of the plastic metaphor, the paradox by the employment of the collage, the imaginary painting by the blazon and the painting of the returning deep and invisible feelings making obvious the essence of the artist-poet by the sculpture. The artists have multidisciplinary knowledge but they can only flirt with because of many methods they use. Artistic approach is a supplement to poetic vision when it comes to reaching the complexities of reality...

Marina Ondo

Extracted from my article published in California Review, http://californiareview.net/current-issue/