{"id":756,"date":"2016-09-06T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-09-06T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:15:18","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-frank-stella-del-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-frank-stella-del-mar","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Frank Stella “Del Mar”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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FRANK STELLA<\/b><\/span>
\nDel Mar<\/i>, from Race Track Series<\/i><\/span>
\n1972<\/span>
\nScreenprint<\/span>
\n20 1\/4 x 80 in.
\nEdition of 75<\/span>
\nPencil signed, dated and numbered<\/span><\/p>\n

About This\u00a0Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Stella first emerged on the scene in the late 1950s, when his Minimalist Black Paintings<\/em>\u00a0heralded a new era in postwar art. In the years since then, he has worked consistently in series, pioneering new approaches to form, color, narrative, and abstraction with innovative paintings, prints, sculptures and architectural installations.<\/p>\n

Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation at Princeton University. He still lives and works in New York, and he is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters still working today.<\/p>\n

In 1970, at the age of 34, Frank Stella became the youngest artist ever to receive a full-scale retrospective exhibition at the\u00a0Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u00a0He received a second retrospective at the same institution in 1987 \u2014 an unprecedented occurrence in the museum\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The story of Stella\u2019s artistic development is the story of ever-increasing visual complexity. When he burst upon the art world at the end of 1959, it was with a series of large rectangular canvases painted entirely in a dull black enamel. The surface of each painting consisted of a simple geometric pattern \u2014 uniform chevrons, for example, or interlocking rectangles \u2014 that was formed by thin, slightly wavering lines of unpainted canvas. There was no color, no contrast of forms or materials, no illusionistic depth or drawing. As Stella put it in an often-quoted interview from 1964, in those paintings \u201cwhat you see is what you see<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Stella creates abstract artworks that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references.<\/p>\n

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

His controlled colors, flat surfaces and rigid forms are once again the main features of his Race Track Series<\/em>.\u00a0 This work, as well as his others from this period of Stella’s career, can be seen to have inaugurated the Minimalist movement in art. Stella\u2019s attempt to pare down painting, to purge it of extraneous gesture, warmth, and emotion made his work appear almost as a species of anti-painting, an inversion of everything that painting stood for and expressed.<\/p>\n

Del Mar\u00a0<\/i>is part of a set of three large-scale, oblong prints, from the\u00a0Race Track Series<\/i>. These screen prints are named after two horse-racing tracks in Los Angeles, titled \u201cDel Mar\u201d and \u201cLos Alamitos\u201d, and one in Mexico, titled \u201cAgua Caliente\u201d.<\/p>\n

Printed on heavy rag paper, the centered, concentric tracks receive their visual immediacy and variety from lively color harmonies, saturated deposits of inks and contrasts of matte, glossy and standard ink surfaces.<\/p>\n

With a career extended across more than half a century, Stella both holds an important place in the history of American art and maintains contemporary relevance as his work continues to influence younger generations of artists.<\/p>\n

The art market has seen an increase in demand and in auction prices in the print work of Frank Stella over the last few years.\u00a0Much of this is due to the nature and importance of his work conceptually as a response to the art movement before him.<\/p>\n

His retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York earlier this year, and the fact that he is 80 years old, have also brought more attention to his print work\u00a0as well.
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