Roses – text and/or painting : Louise Dupré and Anouk Van Renterghem

The collection Roses by Louise Dupré, a Quebec poet, novelist, playwright, and by Anouk Van Renterghem, a Brussels artist, highlights a compelling synergy between the arts-literature and painting. This colorful collection engages both the eye and the ear, inviting to a musical perception of the poetic word, while retaining the scentof a particular spring. Roses stands out through the incorporation of the textual and graphic universe. Each poem is accompanied by a pastel in pink tones that enriches and complements the poetic text. Our focus is on the artistic strategies facilitating the correspondences, the analogies, and the union of these two principal components, text and image, creating the poetics and artistic imaginary. We examine and interpret the “poem-pastels” from a thematic/symbolic perspective (cf. the instance of the imagination) by employing tools of semantic analysis (cf. the theory of the mediation) and by adopting an artistic standpoint (cf. the theory of the chromatic circle, the additive and subtractive color theory).

Keywords: poem; pastel; imaginary; mediation