"What you see is what you see." ______
Frank Stella, of Italian origin, he studied history, but began to frequent New York galleries, which introduced him to art at a time when Jackson Pollock 's abstract expressionism was sweeping the United States.
Stella began his career associated with this movement, but he soon saw that his painting did not need expressiveness, nor symbology, nor the mystique of the abstract expressionists. His was an object, abstract and geometric. His was a proposal. Stella wanted literality rather , so he began painting flat surfaces that emphasized the painting as an object, and not as a representation of something.
Works like Harran II, Gran Cairo or The Marriage of Reason and Squalor among others..
Unmistakable paintings by Stella and With an absolutely unmistakable technique.
▫️▪️Here is an extract from a national newspaper, that caught our attention.
"Most of the painting that is seen today is the result of Photoshop. It's like photography, manipulated photography. And that medium is where many of the ideas for current painting come from. As for other forms such as installations or performances, they are also greatly influenced by the digital world. It is what it is. “Painting with paint on a canvas only occurs to people like me, to dinosaurs.”
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