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Writing and Other Art Forms: Learning from Paintings, Sculpture, and Music with Omer Friedlander
May 11, 2024 @ 11:30 am – 2:30 pm EDT
In this two-day intensive, we will explore the many connections between the making of fiction and other art forms, including paintings, sculpture, and music. We will do writing prompts that respond to paintings by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Degas. From these painters we will learn about setting the scene, and creating movement on the page. We will compare the sculpture ‘Laocoön and his Sons’ with a Turner painting of the sea, and discuss how to write about “heaviness” versus “lightness.” We will read Ursula K. LeGuin on the musicality of the sentence, and learn about the sound and rhythm on the sentence level from writers like Claire Keegan, Toni Morrison, and Zadie Smith. We will respond to music (Glenn Gould playing Bach and Lee Morgan playing “I remember Clifford”) in our writing prompt, working on creating a mood, atmosphere, or ‘voice’ in our writing.
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