{"id":30111,"date":"2017-06-10T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=30111"},"modified":"2017-06-10T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:55:18","slug":"john-ashbery-and-fairefield-porter-respect-for-things-as-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/06\/10\/john-ashbery-and-fairefield-porter-respect-for-things-as-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ashbery and Fairefield Porter &#8211; Respect For Things as They are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1AshberyJamesSchyler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1AshberyJamesSchyler.jpg\" alt=\"1AshberyJamesSchyler\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1AshberyJamesSchyler.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1AshberyJamesSchyler-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fairefield Porter -Portrait of  Schuyler  and John Ashbery.. 57-58 <\/p>\n<p>Fairefield Porter &#8211; was born on June 10, 1907 &#8211; a painter and an art critic.  <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>On Fairefield Porter <a href=\"http:\/\/thisrecording.com\/today\/2010\/4\/8\/in-which-the-passionately-idealistic-man-feels-threatened-by.html\">Respect For Things As They Are<br \/>\nby JOHN ASHBERY<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/paintingperceptions.com\/fairfield-porter-mystery-that-is-essential-to-reality\/\">Mystery that is essential to reality &#8211; Fairefield Porter<\/a> <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2017\/06\/it-wants-to-go-to-bed-with-us\/?single=1\">John Ashbery (Harpers &#8211; )<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He has often said that the artist\u2019s role is to make himself misunderstood, but such a position needn\u2019t be taken as mere obfuscation. It might be entertained as a sort of blessing or benediction, something akin to the one he offers in<br \/>\nAnd Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>                                                               Something<br \/>\n    Ought to be written about how this affects<br \/>\n    You when you write poetry:<br \/>\n    The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind<br \/>\n    Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate<\/p>\n<p>    Something between breaths, if only for the sake<br \/>\n    Of others and their desire to understand you and desert you<br \/>\n    For other centers of communication, so that understanding<br \/>\n    May begin, and in doing so be undone.He has often said that the artist\u2019s role is to make himself misunderstood, but such a position needn\u2019t be taken as mere obfuscation. It might be entertained as a sort of blessing or benediction, something akin to the one he offers in<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2287\/two-poems-john-ashbery\">Ashbury&#8217;s poem from Paris Review <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1ashburyby-Larry-Rivers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1ashburyby-Larry-Rivers.jpg\" alt=\"1ashburyby Larry Rivers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1ashburyby-Larry-Rivers.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1ashburyby-Larry-Rivers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larry Rivers: Pyrography: Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery II, 76 x 58 inches, 1977<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/26\/vanguard-friends\/\"> A Vanguard of Friends <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/12\/14\/r-i-p-jane-freilicher-portraits-of-frank-ohara-koch-ashbery\/\">John Ashbery portrait by<\/a> Jane Freilicher (Previous Post) <\/p>\n<p>The poet John Ashbery, with whom she shared a six-decade friendship, wrote, \u201cHer pictures always have an air of just coming into being, of tentativeness that is the lifeblood of art.\u201d The two met when Ashbery, fresh out of college, came to stay at the poet Kenneth Koch\u2019s apartment at East 16th Street and Third Avenue, and Freilicher, who lived one floor above, provided the key to let him in.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<p>Ashbery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ashbery-rimbaud.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ashbery-rimbaud.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ashbery-rimbaud\" width=\"447\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ashbery-rimbaud.jpeg 447w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ashbery-rimbaud-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a> and Rimbaud<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/05\/18\/where-is-rimbaud\/\">Where is Rimbaud? <\/a> (Previous post) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairefield Porter -Portrait of Schuyler and John Ashbery.. 57-58 Fairefield Porter &#8211; was born on June 10, 1907 &#8211; a painter and an art critic. On Fairefield Porter Respect For Things As They Are by JOHN ASHBERY Mystery that is essential to reality &#8211; Fairefield Porter John Ashbery (Harpers &#8211; ) He has often said &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/06\/10\/john-ashbery-and-fairefield-porter-respect-for-things-as-they-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Ashbery and Fairefield Porter &#8211; Respect For Things as They are&#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":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111","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=30111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}