Believe it or not, quite a lot of famous writers tried their hand at painting. After all, why not? Whether it was a sort of therapy or just a way to try a different form of expression for their ideas, they took the time to paint.
Here are some of their works.
Mt. Chocorua– e.e. cummings (1938)
Untitled work – Herman Hesse
Town beside a lake – Victor Hugo (1850)
Dr. Sax – Jack Kerouac (1952)
Chin Chin – Henry Miller
Kurt Vonnegut
Isn’t that a wet dream for most artists? To create some kind of synesthetic link between their works to express better their visions, emotions and thoughts?
That’s always been my desire. I lack the talent for visual expression, unfortunately.
Don’t forget music ! Bob Dylon won the Nobel Prize for literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,”oddly reminiscent of the Nobel Prize from 1913, when honoring the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali, almost literally, as “Song Offerings” and it’s a compendium of lyrics turned by him into strange English prose poems, selected from three slim Bengali collections of songs.
Yes, I had forgotten about music! Thanks for the reminder.
these are great.
I was very excited to see e.e. cummings’ painting (pastel?) of Mt. Chocorua. I live about an hour south of there.
They are all horrible except Chin Chin which is surprisingly good.
Fascinating. I can see their vision in the works.
… looks as if Kurt Vonnegut could have been another Pablo Picasso.