La guêpe et l’orchidée

“The majority of researchers and specialists today are preoccupied with the situation of the more or less clear alliance between painting and poetry”. This statement made by Marcelin Pleynet in 1998 would be enough to discourage researchers hoping to explore this new territory – if it wasn’t for the qualification “more or less clear”. This “more or less” justifies the quantity and diversity of approaches which do not begin to exhaust this immense and polymorphous subject.