French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic Apollinaire is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist. He also worked with typography in creating what was then known as Calligrammes and later became known as Concrete Poetry. The spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves.
Apollinaire described his work as follows:
The Calligrammes are an idealisation of free verse poetry and typographical precision in an era when typography is reaching a brilliant end to its career, at the dawn of the new means of reproduction that are the cinema and the phonograph.
This is my tribute to his wonderful legacy of poems. The series won First Place in the category of digital illustration in 2010 for the exhibition “Digitized”, Evansville Indiana sponsored by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana.
Apollinaire described his work as follows:
The Calligrammes are an idealisation of free verse poetry and typographical precision in an era when typography is reaching a brilliant end to its career, at the dawn of the new means of reproduction that are the cinema and the phonograph.
This is my tribute to his wonderful legacy of poems. The series won First Place in the category of digital illustration in 2010 for the exhibition “Digitized”, Evansville Indiana sponsored by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana.
