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Two Artists Render the Mundane Mysterious

Orlando Weekly | February 5, 2009

Critics have long argued the differences between poetry and painting. Both Jess and Jack R. Smith validate the Roman poet Horace’s claim: "Ut pictura poesis (As is painting, so is poetry)."

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