ekphrasis and the new york school
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Ekphrasis and The New York School of Poets
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Ekphrasis: Poetic Definition
“Description” in Greek. An ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action” of a painting or sculpture, the poet may amplify and expand its meaning. A notable example is “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” in which the poet John Keats speculates on the identity of the lovers who appear to dance and play music, simultaneously frozen in time and in perpetual motion...
-http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/Ekphrasis
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from The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles]
...Then first he form'd the immense and solid shield; Rich various artifice emblazed the field; Its utmost verge a threefold circle bound; A silver chain suspends the massy round; Five ample plates the broad expanse compose, And godlike labours on the surface rose. There shone the image of the master-mind: There earth, there heaven, there ocean he design'd; The unwearied sun, the moon completely round; The starry lights that heaven's high convex crown'd; The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on the ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main….
-http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19926
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Re-creation of Achilles’ Shield
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Drawing re-creation of Achilles’ Shield
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Graphic explanation of Achilles’ Shield
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from “The Shield of Achilles,” W.H. Auden
...She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shining metal His hands had put instead An artificial wilderness And a sky like lead.
A plain without a feature, bare and brown, No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood,Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down, Yet, congregated on its blankness, stood An unintelligible multitude,A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign….
-http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15547
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“Members”:● Frank O’Hara● John Ashbery● Kenneth Koch● James Schuyler● Barbara Guest
The New York School of Poetry
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Influential Painters for Asbery and O’HaraAbstract Expressionists (mainly O’Hara)
● Jackson Pollack● Willem de Kooning● Robert Motherwell● Helen Frankenthaler
“2nd Generation” Ab. Ex’s (both)
● Larry Rivers● Grace Hartley● Jane Freilicher● Robert Rauschenberg● Jasper Johns
American Realism/Representationism (both)
● Fairfield Porter
Surrealism (mainly Ashbery)
● Joseph Cornell● Max Ernst● Yves Tanguy
Dada (both)
● Duchamp, of course!
Romanticism and Realism (Ashbery)
● Parmigianino● Bonnard
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Poets and PaintersTibor de Nagy Gallery
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Collaboration Between Larry Rivers and Kenneth Koch
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Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara, Portrait and Poem Painting, 1961, Tibor de Nagy Gallery
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Larry Rivers, O'Hara Nude With Boots, 1954
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Larry Rivers, Pyrography: Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery II, 1977
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Fairfield Porter, Frank O’Hara, 1957
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Fairfield Porter,Jimmy and John, 1957-58
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Emmanuel Gottlieb, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
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Larry Rivers, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1953
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Parmigianino, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, c. 1524