Frank Stella, Die Fahne hoch!, 1959. Enamel on canvas, 121 1/2 × 73 in. (308.6 × 185.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art
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We can not wait for the Frank Stella Retrospective to open at the Whitney on October 30th! Richard Lacayo wrote a fantastic blurb in Time Magazine that has gotten us extremely excited about the show.
Lacayo wrote, “The man at the center of “Frank Stella: A Retrospective”… was one of the crucial inventors of minimalist painting. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, he made big canvases of uninflected black pigment, their shapes intensified by rows of symmetrical white lines or bands of bright, flat color. They reduced painting to a conceptual ground zero. “What you see is what you see” became his famously fundamentalist motto. But in the 1970s, Stella left the flatlands behind and started making wildly colored wall pieces with things like arabesques of spray-painted aluminum jumping into your lap. The idea was to reintroduce into abstraction – always the first principle of his faith – the spatial drama of Old Master art. Did he? You bet.”
Frank Stella (b. 1936), Harran II, 1967. Polymer and fluorescent polymer paint on canvas. 120 × 240 in. (304.8 × 609.6 cm).
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Frank Stella (b. 1936), Raft of the Medusa (Part I), 1990. Aluminum and steel. 167 × 163 × 159 in. (424.2 × 414 × 403.9 cm).
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