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From the Greek comes the word ekphrasis, meaning description. A synesthetic art form, ekphrasis is a poem written about another form of art—most often a painting. Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is an example of ekphrasis. Back in the days of the Danville Weekly in print and the Pioneer Gallery in existence, I produced […]

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