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- At the time, Stella had already produced the first version of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor; he made this second iteration expressly for the occasion, varying the composition slightly (as he did with two other paintings in the series).
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At the time, Stella had already produced the first version of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor; he made this second iteration expressly for the occasion, varying the composition slightly (as he did with two other paintings in the series).
- Rejecting Emotion
- “What You See Is What You See”
- The Title
Stella wanted to eliminate the personal reference and symbolic meaning associated with modernist abstract painting. In this way, his paintings differ from those of European modernists like Piet Mondrian who used reductive geometrical forms to communicate spiritual ideals. Stella criticized the work of these earlier painters as too “relational,” a t...
Stella adapted these ideas for his own non-objective imagery (images that don’t depict recognizable forms) by looking to the rectangular shape of the canvas as the basis for his compositions. He explained this rationale in 1960 to students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn: Although painted by hand, the image’s methodical regularity erased any sign of...
For all of Stella’s emphasis on painting’s formal properties (that is how the painting looks as opposed to what it represents), the provocative titles of his Black Paintings compel speculation about deeper meaning. These includes Nazi references such as Arbeit Macht Frei and Die Fahne Hoch, and places such as Arundel Castle (a favorite subject of E...
She writes, “It is precisely the marriage of reason and squalor—the union of control and flow, the matings between differences, the pleasures of conjugation—that allows the procreation of meaning in the Black Paintings (to pursue Andre’s analogy.)”[5] Noting that the painting was the second of two versions of the same composition ...
Mar 7, 2024 · “The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II,” created by Frank Stella in 1959, is an outstanding work that shows his transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional abstraction phase. This monumental work, with a size of 6×11 feet, presents with a dynamic tangling of shapes, colors, and textures that cannot miss the visitor’s gaze.
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- 1959
- Frank Stella
- Abstract expressionism
1959. The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II. Belonging to the artist's groundbreaking series Black Paintings, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor is composed of black inverted parallel U-shapes containing stripes separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas.
- American
- May 12, 1936
- Malden, Massachusetts
‘The Marriage of Reason and Squalor’ was created in 1959 by Frank Stella in Minimalism style. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Stella talked about wanting to create a picture that would have a strong and immediate visual impact—"an imprint," he called it—so that it was completely and immediately available to the eye. And you would see it all at once and not in component parts.
