Frank Stella, dead.
currently has a pretty impressive show up
https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/frank-stella-recent-sculpture
1936-2024
Looks like a great show. Have you seen it?
Not yet. Up for another couple weeks. Hopefully it gets extended.
Part of his legacy was the cost of retaining his soul with the knowledge that CA and MF were fighting to the death over it
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2015/12/07/frank-stellas-decline-on-the-artists-whitney-museum-retrospective
as mentioned in the article there was difficulty among the critics taking in his life works as a whole at his Whitney retrospective
some of my favorite works were from the silver aluminum and steel freestanding "space junk" era, but there were also some stylistic rabbit holes I just couldn't follow
He moved and pushed at the boundaries quite a few times. For me, sometimes it felt like it was only for the sake of it but I was certainly wrong. When you find yourself in a corner the only other recourse would be to give up.
Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world's most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists' work, as well as his own, in this handsomely illustrated volume. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. The artists who followed Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian searched for new directions to advance their work from beneath the shadow of these great painters. Caravaggio pointed the way. So today, Stella believes, the successors to Picasso, Kandinsky, and Pollock must seek a pictorial space as potent as the one Caravaggio developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Stella sees Caravaggio as the pivot on whom painting turns, his consummate illusionism prompting the advance of a more flexible, more "real" space that allows painting to move and breathe, to suggest extension and unrestricted motion. Following Caravaggio, Rubens' broad vision of fullness and active volume gave painting a momentum that helped propel it into the nineteenth century, where it came to rest in the genius of G�ricault and Manet, themselves the precursors of modern painting. Unfortunately, both contemporary abstract art and figurative painting have become trapped by ambiguous pictorial space and by a misguided emphasis on materiality (pigment for pigment's sake). Pictorial qualities have given way to illustrational techniques. Abstract art has become verbal, defensive, and critical, caught up in theology masquerading as theory. Stella asserts that painting must understand its past, make use of the lucid realism of seventeenth-century Italy, and absorb a Mediterranean physicality to reinforce the lean spirituality of northern abstraction pioneered by Mondrian and Malevich. Working Space will provoke discussion and argument, not least because Stella offers nontraditional evaluations of the works of giants such as Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, Picasso, and Pollock, as well as lesser-known figures including Annibale Carracci, Paulus Potter, and Morris Louis. The artist's powers of discernment and the profusion of his ideas and opinions will dazzle and engage professionals, amateurs, and students of art.
87 sounds like a nice year to go, hopefully just old age stuff, no cancer please......my mom made it to 97, she was a pain but mostly on her own.......I don't want to be a pain.....bye frank, now that you're gone can't say I liked any of your art, I am in the minority I assume
https://www.peterhalley.com/frank-stella-simulacrum?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2kl_4EiQ9UmMoKx0bhDSFfAKNUu3dyEqhHXqcE1Xv6OmwQ5nBqVpDeROc_aem_AZtPoclYDR-0lsGOSQgR7cO74VuyZ1NQ2nToMp-zsntiZv7h4Jyqt_Eylz92J_fxVAICGCTPyBfmfoHZFfuztuZ3
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Frank Stella, dead.
- steve 5-04-2024 5:23 pm
currently has a pretty impressive show up
https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/frank-stella-recent-sculpture
1936-2024
- bill 5-04-2024 5:29 pm [add a comment]
Looks like a great show. Have you seen it?
- steve 5-04-2024 6:46 pm [add a comment]
Not yet. Up for another couple weeks. Hopefully it gets extended.
- bill 5-04-2024 7:36 pm [add a comment]
Part of his legacy was the cost of retaining his soul with the knowledge that CA and MF were fighting to the death over it
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2015/12/07/frank-stellas-decline-on-the-artists-whitney-museum-retrospective
as mentioned in the article there was difficulty among the critics taking in his life works as a whole at his Whitney retrospective
some of my favorite works were from the silver aluminum and steel freestanding "space junk" era, but there were also some stylistic rabbit holes I just couldn't follow
- bill 5-05-2024 2:31 pm [add a comment]
He moved and pushed at the boundaries quite a few times. For me, sometimes it felt like it was only for the sake of it but I was certainly wrong. When you find yourself in a corner the only other recourse would be to give up.
- steve 5-05-2024 7:25 pm [add a comment]
Working Space affords a rare opportunity to view painting from the inside out, through the eyes of one of the world's most prominent abstract painters. Frank Stella describes his perception of other artists' work, as well as his own, in this handsomely illustrated volume. Stella uses the crisis of representational art in sixteenth-century Italy to illuminate the crisis of abstraction in our time. The artists who followed Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian searched for new directions to advance their work from beneath the shadow of these great painters. Caravaggio pointed the way. So today, Stella believes, the successors to Picasso, Kandinsky, and Pollock must seek a pictorial space as potent as the one Caravaggio developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Stella sees Caravaggio as the pivot on whom painting turns, his consummate illusionism prompting the advance of a more flexible, more "real" space that allows painting to move and breathe, to suggest extension and unrestricted motion. Following Caravaggio, Rubens' broad vision of fullness and active volume gave painting a momentum that helped propel it into the nineteenth century, where it came to rest in the genius of G�ricault and Manet, themselves the precursors of modern painting. Unfortunately, both contemporary abstract art and figurative painting have become trapped by ambiguous pictorial space and by a misguided emphasis on materiality (pigment for pigment's sake). Pictorial qualities have given way to illustrational techniques. Abstract art has become verbal, defensive, and critical, caught up in theology masquerading as theory. Stella asserts that painting must understand its past, make use of the lucid realism of seventeenth-century Italy, and absorb a Mediterranean physicality to reinforce the lean spirituality of northern abstraction pioneered by Mondrian and Malevich. Working Space will provoke discussion and argument, not least because Stella offers nontraditional evaluations of the works of giants such as Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, Picasso, and Pollock, as well as lesser-known figures including Annibale Carracci, Paulus Potter, and Morris Louis. The artist's powers of discernment and the profusion of his ideas and opinions will dazzle and engage professionals, amateurs, and students of art.
- bill 5-06-2024 8:31 am [add a comment]
https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780674959613?browse=1&mtype=B
- bill 5-06-2024 8:31 am [add a comment]
87 sounds like a nice year to go, hopefully just old age stuff, no cancer please......my mom made it to 97, she was a pain but mostly on her own.......I don't want to be a pain.....bye frank, now that you're gone can't say I liked any of your art, I am in the minority I assume
- Skinny 5-06-2024 8:39 am [add a comment]
It was lymphoma. But he did seem to enjoy his fair share of cigars and then some.
- bill 5-12-2024 4:36 pm [add a comment]
https://www.peterhalley.com/frank-stella-simulacrum?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2kl_4EiQ9UmMoKx0bhDSFfAKNUu3dyEqhHXqcE1Xv6OmwQ5nBqVpDeROc_aem_AZtPoclYDR-0lsGOSQgR7cO74VuyZ1NQ2nToMp-zsntiZv7h4Jyqt_Eylz92J_fxVAICGCTPyBfmfoHZFfuztuZ3
- bill 5-12-2024 11:10 am [add a comment]