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Frank O Hara's Surrealism: Changing America

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Changing America “Surrealism is not a poetry, but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.” - Octavio Paz. Frank O’Hara was an American poet and art critic in the 1950s and 60s. O’Hara’s close friends and followers would describe him as a poet among painters and an abstract thinker who epitomized the combined perspective of New York painters. Many of Frank O’Hara’s poems were written in relation to Pollock’s, Kline’s, and Goldberg’s surrealist paintings in the late 1940s and 50s. Surrealism is a style of Art and Literature stressing the significance of imagery, the exploration of chance effects, and unleashing the imagination of one 's mind. Although he is a well known poet in our society today, many of his poems weren
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