Role Models: Writer Portraits
Some of the artists were friends with the writers they painted, like Edouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire and Michael Ayrton and Dylan Thomas. For others, it is their heroes or icons that are the focus of their work. Soheila Sokhanvari鈥檚 Kobra (Kobra Saeedi) depicts Kobra Saeedi, an actor and poet who fought for artistic freedom in Iran. Other artworks were influenced by stories or poetry, like David Hockney鈥檚 etchings inspired by Edward Lear鈥檚 poems.
The exhibition celebrates the unique exchange between artists and writers, between two very different mediums 鈥� the word and the image.
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Some of the artists were friends with the writers they painted, like Edouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire and Michael Ayrton and Dylan Thomas. For others, it is their heroes or icons that are the focus of their work. Soheila Sokhanvari鈥檚 Kobra (Kobra Saeedi) depicts Kobra Saeedi, an actor and poet who fought for artistic freedom in Iran. Other artworks were influenced by stories or poetry, like David Hockney鈥檚 etchings inspired by Edward Lear鈥檚 poems.
The exhibition celebrates the unique exchange between artists and writers, between two very different mediums 鈥� the word and the image.
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