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I was once discussing with my friend, the painter Fairfield Porter, someone's definition of a portrait as a painting of somebody where there is something wrong with the mouth. Porter felt this was true and said that he once had the experience of correcting that error in the mouth and having the painting go dead. This can happen in poetry, too.
—John Ashbery (Nassau Literary Review, Spring 1980)
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- [photograph of the reenactment of the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd, 1917]
- Brainard, Joe
- Blondie*
- Cartier-Bresson, Henri
- Cavallon, Giorgio
- Cornell, Joseph*
- Darger, Henry*
- de Chirico, Giorgio*
- Duchamp, Marcel
- Eisenstadt, Alfred
- Freilicher, Jane
- Goya, Francisco de
- Hofmann, Hans
- Johns, Jasper
- Judd, Donald*
- Katz, Alex
- Kitaj, R.B.
- Klee, Paul*
- Léger, Fernand*
- Lichtenstein, Roy
- Magritte, René
- Marden, Brice
- Michaux, Henri
- Parmigianino, Francesco*
- Picasso, Pablo
- Pollock, Jackson
- Porter, Fairfield
- Popeye*
- "Rivers and Mountains"*
- Rothko, Mark
- Vermeer, Johannes
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