Inspiring Art for Writers – the painting that was the source for Waiting for Godot

I bristle when writers play down art and contemporary music because they find it inaccessible. Make it accessible. Not only will you discover new ideas, but techniques to sharpen your writing.

Bridget Whelan shares the connection between art and inspiration to write. Incidentally, the painting The painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, may well have been inspired by the writings of Lord Byron (particularly Childe Harold).

BRIDGET WHELAN writer

This is a painting by Caspar David Friendrich, a 19th century German artist most famous for his land and seascapes which seem to tell stories while creating an emotional response in the viewer. This particular painting wasn’t my first choice. I was going to use Monk by the Sea and had written a post about it, but in the end I couldn’t push the publish button. It was just too much, even on the small scale of my computer. It’s drenched in loneliness, in the sheer frightening smallness of what it is to be human. You can find the painting easily on the internet, but I’m not going to inflict that mood on you, you can do that to yourself…

Not that Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon is especially cheery. (Friendrich, I suspect, would not be your companion of choice on a pub crawl.) It is, however, an absorbing…

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