Sylvia Plath’s Cubist Collage Portaiture

Stella Vine, "Sylvia Plath" (2004)

Sylvia Plath's Cubist Collage Portraiture
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“I had been trying
to break free from
the constraits of
figurative painting."
—Frieda Plath,
Forty-Five
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I couldn’t break free—
Of figurative painting
The constraints were
Rather tiring

A life isn’t just—
An abstract landscape
Four feet high and
225 feet long
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Not until I saw—
Stella Vine’s portraits
Did I realize how
To break free

Satire & humor—
Are ways of coping
With taxing situations
And perpetual fear
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Experience and—
Relationships are
Perpetually changing
Like paintings too

Autobiography—
As cubist collage
Fitzroy Road Primrose Hill
Plathian Portraiture

to break free