Movement

When Joe pointed out the movement in Stanley Cursiter’s “Surf” painting, I made a mental note of the word “movement.” I noted in the aforelinked post that Monet, among other Impressionists, such as Berthe Morisot, depicted movement in their works; Monet painted trees blown by wind in his Poplars on the Epte; Morisot created a sense of movement surrounding the two central figures in “Woman and Child in a Garden”. It is fascinating that a painting, an artefact frozen in time, can create a sense of movement.I started thinking about this more and realised writing, too, creates movement. I move from sentence to sentence as I write; you do the same when you read. I am always moving when I look at and interpret paintings: my eyes move all around the work, I walk around a piece to get a look from different angles and distances, from close up and far away.In writing, a work can tell a story which has a beginning, middle, and end. Jane Eyre, for example, follows the story of the title character…