El poeta como pintor: vanguardia y visualidad en Son gotas de autismo visual, de Lorenzo García Vega

Abstract

This paper analyzes the issue of visuality in Lorenzo García Vega’s poetry, focusing on its relationships to visual arts. As I show, the visuality of García Vega’s poetry often presents itself under the form of painting hypothesis, i.e., the narration of conjectural paintings. Such narrated paintings—frequently unfinished—aim to bring to the mind of the reader the immediacy and concreteness of what the poet-painter observes, but also that of what he imagines. In this sense, I argue that García Vega’s poetry shares with certain avant-garde tendencies their non-representational character, interpreting his focus on the most concrete aspects of our visual field—such as geometrical forms and colors—as a strategy to evade fiction.