Art in all forms inspires new ideas and encourages discussions. While reading about the New York School art movement during the 50’s and 60’s, I noticed a positive and open collaboration between artists: musicians, poets, visuals artists, and dancers. The ultimate benefit of collaboration is the movement towards immediate inspiration leading to creative thought and energy. The painting by artist Jane Freilicher, Lizzie’s Flowers in a Landscape, creates a breezy, relaxed, sunny, and contemplative mood through the use of color and light. I believe art is a moving and expressive experience be it music, dance, the written word, or visual art. Art is a way for the artist and for the observer to express and define their “worlds,” their existence, to question, and to respond to everyone about the place(s) in which they reside in that world. When I begin to write poetry, depending on the tone and central theme, I usually try to find a starting place for inspiration, usually a painting or a song: Jazz, Blues R&B, or Rock. I could look at Ms. Freilicher’s painting and imagine myself part of a party, looking out of the window, and how the conversation would progress. When I begin to write, I feel that I am initiating and creating an active and lively conversation. By using such a painting for inspiration with soft colors, gentle light, and relaxed tone, a more vivid, colorful, but unspoken banter emerges between the speaker of the poem and the reader.
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