Remembering Fairfield Porter on his birthday 🎂
📷 Elaine de Kooning, 1954
"When I paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: make everything more beautiful."
📷 Elaine de Kooning, 1954
"When I paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: make everything more beautiful."
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Clothesline, 1958
"The more one looks at them, the less the paintings seem celebrations of atmosphere & moments but, rather, strong, contentious, & thorny."
- John Ashbery
"No doubt the suggestion that he would travel to paint in a place where the light was better was inconceivable. The whole point was to put down what was there wherever he happened to be, not with approval but with respect."
- John Ashbery
📷 Ellen Auerbach, c. 1940
From Dwight Ripley's "An Alphabetical Guide to Modern Art"
Some have a taste for barley-water,
Quaker Oats -- and Fairfield Porter.