*3.6. ColorPoetry*

In poetry, synesthesia refers specifically to figurative language that includes a mixing of senses. For example, saying "he wore a loud yellow shirt" is an example of synesthesia, as it mixes visual imagery (yellow) with auditory imagery (loud). Here is another example "The Loudness of Color by Jennifer Betts":

The music of white dances softly around The soft silence and blue are bound Purple is calm, the sound soft and sweet The color lightness of a rainbow is a hypnotic beatIn yellow, the silence is loud While red is a yell, robust and proud

A poem is a piece of writing that has features of both speech and song, whereas the poetry is the art of creating these poems. Throughout the poem, seeing and hearing are used to understand color. Red does not actually yell, but many would describe it as loud. Using sound to describe color makes it fun and interesting for the reader. The art of writing poetry about paintings is known as ekphrasis, which means a verbal description of a visual art. Cho [123] introduced a style of painting incorporating the meaning of poetry motivated by "poetry-based paintings". Poems can be created from paintings by applying the same techniques in the opposite direction. Poets have been inspired by works of art. Korean artist Lee Jing (1581–1674 or after) had an outstanding capacity to make "poetry-based paintings", demonstrating the patterns and trends of paintings in the period [124]. The characteristics of Lee's poetry-based paintings can be summarized as follows. At first, it is clear that the main objects of his poetry-based paintings were the poems of the scholars. Secondly, the poems portrayed the social aspect as well as describing the romantic expressions of individual emotions. Thirdly, the poetry-based paintings were mainly ordered by the royal family and power elites of the society. Fourth, many paintings are divisional in the composition of picture and poem. Last, the main themes of the poetry-based painting are landscape and four honorable plants.

Audio or verbal description on an artwork generally attempts to explain the painting without expressing the individual subjectivity. When making visual art accessible to the visually impaired, it is not enough to describe the colors and situations portrayed, because that objective information does not attach to anything in their experience. Using expressions that contain the sensibility of poems, color, and situation can be matched with the parts of each painting.
