A San Diego exhibition pairing visual and literary art gets reviewed in the Union-Tribune, but I just need to quote it for the gaffe...
Horace usually gets the credit. In about 20 B.C., he coined the famous phrase ut pictura poesis: “as is painting so is poetry.” Actually, like a lot of Roman thinkers, he may have been borrowing from an earlier Greek source – in particular, Plutarch – but whatever the case, commentators have been insisting on a special relationship between painting and poetry ever since.
This rich history exists as a big backdrop for a modest, nationally touring exhibition now on view at the Centro Cultural de la Raza, “Poetas y Pintores: Artists Conversing With Verse.”
Must be the editor's fault...[cf. this on the phrase ut pictura poesis]...if so, I also take issue with the editor's judgment in not balking at the word "exists."
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