{"id":14950,"date":"2011-10-05T04:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2013-11-10T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T15:56:44","slug":"forrest-bess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/10\/05\/forrest-bess\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest Bess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dilqrxxcBRw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrestbess.org\/\">Forrest Bess<\/a> (October 5, 1911 \u2013 November 10, 1977) Painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric &#8211; Forrest Bess was one of the most original American artists of his generation<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bess showed at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, along with artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. In the 1950s, he also began a life-long correspondence with art professor and author Meyer Schapiro, and sexologist John Money<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/forrestBess21.jpg\" alt=\"forrestBess2\" title=\"forrestBess2\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/forrestBess21.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/forrestBess21-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bess makes it clear that his paintings were only part of a grander theory, based on alchemy, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and the rituals of Australian aborigines, which proposed that becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to immortality. In 1960, Bess operated on himself to become a pseudo-hermaphrodite. This physical manifestation of his theory never achieved the results he had hoped for and, ironically, this quest for immortality was the beginning of a slow decline in both his health and his creative output<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His letter <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestLetters.jpg\" alt=\"ForrestLetters\" title=\"ForrestLetters\" width=\"403\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestLetters.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestLetters-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestBess2.jpg\" alt=\"ForrestBess\" title=\"ForrestBess\" width=\"529\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestBess2.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ForrestBess2-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Forrest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IforrestBsma1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IforrestBsma1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IforrestBsma1\" width=\"489\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IforrestBsma1.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IforrestBsma1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>October 5 birthday<br \/>\nDenis Diderot + Lumiere  (previous post &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/10\/05\/lespirit-de-france\/\">L\u2019espirit de France <\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kate Winslet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Db68gSckUU0\">Listen America<\/a> (She played a mother of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/09\/13\/esther-freud\/\"> Esther Freud<\/a>)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrest Bess (October 5, 1911 \u2013 November 10, 1977) Painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric &#8211; Forrest Bess was one of the most original American artists of his generation Bess showed at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, along with artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. In the 1950s, he also began a life-long correspondence &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/10\/05\/forrest-bess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forrest Bess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}