{"id":410,"date":"2015-08-10T16:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=410"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T16:57:11","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-9","title":{"rendered":"WOW! – Work of the Week 8\/10\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Stella<\/b>,\u00a0Telluride<\/em><\/p>\n

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Frank Stella, Telluride, from Copper Series, 1970<\/p><\/div>\n


\n<\/a>Frank Stella
\nTelluride, from Copper Series
\n1970
\nLithograph in colors on Arjomari paper
\n16 x 22\u00a0in.
\nEdition of 75
\nPencil signed and numbered<\/p>\n

About This Work:<\/p>\n

Frank Stella’s\u00a0seven Copper Series prints are based on his\u00a0Copper Series paintings of 1960-61. Titles of the individual works refer to towns near the San Juan Mountains in Colorado which had active copper and silver mines at the turn of the century, but whose reserves have since been depleted. Like his Aluminum Series prints, the lithographic inks and over-varnishes of the Copper Series were printed on paper that was first screenprinted.<\/p>\n

The other 6\u00a0works of the Copper Series are titled Creede I, Creede II, Lake City, Pagosa Springs, Ouray and Ophir.<\/p>\n

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About Frank Stella:<\/p>\n

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, significant in the art movements of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.<\/p>\n

He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters still working today. Notably, he is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting.<\/p>\n

Early visits to New York art galleries influenced his artist development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.\u00a0 Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the “flatter” surfaces of Barnett Newman’s work and the “target” paintings of Jasper Johns. He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object, rather than the picture as a representation of something, be it something in the physical world, or something in the artist’s emotional world.<\/p>\n

“A picture is a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more”.<\/p>\n

Many of Stella\u2019s works are created by simply using the path of the brush stroke, very often using common house paint, in which regular bands of paint were separated by very thin pinstripes of unpainted canvas.\u00a0 Stella\u2019s art was recognized for its innovations before he was twenty-five.<\/p>\n

In the 1960s, Stella began to use a wider range of colors, typically arranged in straight or curved lines. Later he began his Protractor Series (71) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders are arranged side-by-side to produce full and half circles painted in rings of concentric color.<\/p>\n

In 1970, The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella\u2019s work, making him the youngest artist to receive one.\u00a0 During the 1970\u2019s Stella introduced relief into his art, which he came to call \u201cmaximalist\u201d painting for its sculptural qualities.\u00a0 It is ironic that these paintings were completely, the opposite of what had brought him fame, the decade before.\u00a0 His work also became more three-dimensional to the point where he started producing large, free-standing metal pieces, which, although they are painted upon, might well be considered sculpture.<\/p>\n

In the 1980\u2019s & 1990\u2019s, the increasingly deep relief of Stella\u2019s paintings gave way to full three-dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements.\u00a0 In the 1990s, Stella began making free-standing sculpture for public spaces and developing architectural projects.<\/p>\n

Stella\u2019s work was included in several important exhibitions that defined 1960s art, among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\u2019s The Shaped Canvas (1965) and Systemic Painting (1966). His art has been the subject of several retrospectives in the United States, Europe, and Japan.<\/p>\n

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Frank Stella,\u00a0Telluride Frank Stella Telluride, from Copper Series 1970 Lithograph in colors on Arjomari paper 16 x 22\u00a0in. Edition of 75 Pencil signed and numbered About This Work: Frank Stella’s\u00a0seven Copper Series prints are based on his\u00a0Copper Series paintings of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[16,79,174,84,171,8,83,9,15,90,172,173,88,222,17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}