{"id":827,"date":"2017-09-07T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georges-mathieu.fr\/?p=827"},"modified":"2017-09-07T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:07:20","slug":"passing-of-john-ashbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georges-mathieu.fr\/en\/2017\/09\/passing-of-john-ashbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of John Ashbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Ashbery, one of the most renowned American poets \u2014 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/new-york\/articles\/2017-09-03\/john-ashbery-celebrated-and-challenging-poet-dies-at-90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died early Sunday<\/a>&nbsp;(September 3rd, 2017) at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/10060\/john-ashbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francophile<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1989\/10\/08\/the-poet-in-the-gallery\/5383e966-5429-4918-acff-02b3cf75b676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">art critic<\/a>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<em>Paris Herald Tribune<\/em>, <em>ARTnews<\/em>, <em>New York<\/em>&nbsp;et <em>Newsweek<\/em>, he held Georges Mathieu&#8217;s work in high esteem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new paintings of Georges Mathieu probably establish him as France\u2019s foremost abstract painter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and analyzed it as follows, with his rich and subtle language:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(\u2026)&nbsp;It is vital for us to decode the messages that Mathieu has set down for us \u2014for our own good \u2014 in a ravishing cipher&nbsp;whose elegance is somehow connected with danger.&nbsp;But already the difficulty of the language, the speed with which&nbsp;things happen, the inexorable preciseness of the forms have given us a clue. And without realizing it we have&nbsp;already begun to live in his world \u2014 like our own with the difference that everything is carried to its extreme \u2014 a&nbsp;world of pure motion in which we are not always aware of what it is that lacerates us, that makes us rejoice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ashbery, one of the most renowned American poets \u2014 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award \u2014 died early Sunday&nbsp;(September 3rd, 2017) at the age of 90. 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