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The Ekphrasis Project blog shows paintings, scribbling and works in mixed media by Dutch artist Joost de Jonge.

dinsdag 8 december 2015

INTERVIEW – Artist Gerrit Joost de Jonge: A Call and Response Art for Poets and Painters

INTERVIEW – Artist Gerrit Joost de Jonge: A Call and Response Art for Poets and Painters


Raluca Albu interviewed me regarding my project "Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics" !

Joy harjo joined the conversation, as well as Robert C. Morgan and quite some of the other participants as well (Prof. Dr. Oostdijk/Dinah Berland/Peter Frank/Saul Ostrow…)

maandag 24 augustus 2015

Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics; an ekphrastic notion ebook online

  Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics; an ekphrastic notion



I really felt that my art practice, in general, needed  art for art's sake. So I took this urge literally and asked some of the poets and writers of the English-speaking world, whom I tremendously admire, to join my project and to write  one poem or text in exchange of one of my smaller paintings.
I was very fortunate to have Peter Clothier, Peter Frank, Norman Dubie, Robert Wynne & John Fuller joining in first hand. Here upon, Robert C. Morgan was ready to underscore my project with a text and a recommendation! More voices joined in: Emily Bilman & Andrin Schütz from Switzerland, Eva Bosch from Catalonia, Dinah Berland from LA, Domenico de Chirico from Milan, Saul Ostrow from New York City, the enigmatic Joy Harjo from Tulsa, Oklahoma and, closer to home, my two good friends Robbie Dell'Aira & Juliën Holtrigter and new acquaintances Diederik Oostdijk & Onno Kosters.

As always a spark drives me on. The spark of inspiration seems to ignite a force beyond my control as if I'm driven forward. Basically, I was driven by my conscious desire to expand my poetic and spiritual awareness and to connect and share my work and feelings with powerful creative people

How this truly happens is an inexplicable dark thing. The poetic brilliance of Norman Dubie opened up my consciousness to new colors. Robert Wynne's poem gave me the idea that, indeed, life and art show a form of symbiosis in inexplicable parallels of feeling and visual expression; perhaps, the Romantic Sublime in its full significance. John Fuller really took it to heart and repositioned the "I" within the body of truth, feeling, life & poetry. 

Dr. Emily Bilman's  text is central to the project and is available in four different languages. Peter Frank & Emily Bilman deserve special mention for their guidance and editing. Joy Harjo's poem reconnected me with my childhood experience. Robert's striking critique elevates perception and I'm grateful to be able to share it with my readers.

I wish to thank everybody who contributed, in their own specific manner, to the richness of my feeling and art, to the completeness of this book, which may very well be the beginning of  a new awareness of the intricate relations of the different arts and their values reinforced by the individuality of their voices and the mystique of their universality .

May you enjoy reading this book as much as you enjoy viewing my paintings.



Joost de Jonge Vianen, the 30th of April 2015, The Netherlands.

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Prof. Dr. Robert C. Morgan
inspired by six small paintings (impasto improvisation 015, 1-6) by Joost de Jonge


Thick milk may stir the soul
Or so it is said to happen.

Like tough molecules bending toward lightness
with no age in particular

Only the solemn grace of footing against a hill
of thieves
who wait to see inside

Recumbent nerves and luminous froth come forth
from the sea of time

as the colors explode. 




14-08-2015
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