Rimbaud’s Vowels, 2018, oil on canvas, 20x20 inches, abstract painting, ~$1,100

I was inspired by the significant and radical use of imagery in the poem by Arthur Rimbaud. In its opening line, the poet assigned each vowel a colour. A-black, E-white, I-red, U-green, and O-blue. Its been suggested that the poem is in response to Baudelaire’s theory of synesthesia.

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