Artists Among Poets

It happens that very often my writing with pen is interrupted by my writing with brush, but I think of both as writing. In other words, I don’t consider myself a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend.

~Do period terms, such as "Surrealists" or "Modernism," mean the same thing in literature and the visual arts?

~Can one usefully apply terms developed to describe technique, such as "texture," "structure," or "narrative," in one art to another art form or medium?

~How do images, symbols, and motifs work differently in visual and verbal arts?

~How do twentieth century multimedia art forms differ from twenty-first-century ones?

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20. Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. Example: "You could say Babe Ruth was a decent ballplayer," the reporter said with a wink.