Brendan Whipple
A Design
I took to illustration in an attempt to visualize the poetry of John Keats; specifically the theme of nature in his work. The style of these visuals exemplifies the fantastic and borders on the grotesque, thus spawning the full title of the text, "To Steal the Basil Pot: The Fantastic Nature of John Keats."
John Keats spent his unfortunately brief life attempting to find an underlying truth to the world. While it has been said that as a Romantic Keats could not find truth in ugliness, no one has ever been attempted to define his truth in beauty as anything other than 'prettiness.' I brought out the fantastic quality of Keats's beauty to show how beauty represents an underlying truth as it takes on a different form to each person that beholds it. A written excerpt of mine from the critical text can be found below.
I took to illustration in an attempt to visualize the poetry of John Keats, specifically the theme of nature in his work. The style of these visuals exemplifies the fantastic and borders on the grotesque, thus spawning the full title of the text, "To Steal the Basil Pot: The Fantastic Nature of John Keats."
John Keats spent his unfortunately brief life attempting to find an underlying truth to the world. While it has been said that as a Romantic Keats could not find truth in ugliness, no one has ever been attempted to define his truth in beauty as anything other than 'prettiness.' I brought out the fantastic quality of Keats's beauty to show how beauty represents an underlying truth as it takes on a different form to each person that beholds it. A written excerpt of mine from the critical text can be found below.
