劳伦斯《直觉与绘画》 From introduction to the文献.docVIP

From Introduction to These Paintings D. H. Lawrence What am I doing, bursting into paint? Lawrence wrote in 1929. I am a writer; I ought to stick to ink. I have found my medium of expression: why, at the age of forty in 1926, should I suddenly want to try another? Years earlier; before he had turned his hand to fiction, the young Lawrence had started both to write poems and to draw and copy paintings (by, among others, Pieter de Hooch and Piero di Cosimo).Those same first artistic stirrings he gave to Paul Morel in Sons and Lovers, for whom