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Frank Stella The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II 1959. The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II debuted at The Museum of Modern Art in December 1959, one of four works from Stella’s Black Paintings series (1958–60) included in curator Dorothy C. Miller’s landmark exhibition Sixteen Americans.
- 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...
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Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (article) | Khan Academy. Google Classroom. by Dr. Virginia B. Spivey. Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II, 1959, enamel on canvas, 230.5 x 337.2 cm (The Museum of Modern Art) The best known American abstract painting of the 1950s was gestural and emotionally expressive (see below).
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II. 1959. 11' 3/4" (230.5 x 337.2 cm). Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund. Director, Glenn Lowry: In the late 1950s, Frank Stella began to make abstract pictures comprising parallel lines and patterns using a housepainter's brush. Curator, Leah Dickerman.
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
17 hours ago · Stella (1936–2024) From his MoMA debut at age 23, Stella. was always rethinking color and form. Ann Temkin. May 14, 2024. Frank Stella was a boy wonder, and stayed that way till his death last week at 87. He was an iconoclast from beginning to end: first, overthrowing the high-toned aesthetics of the Abstract Expressionist generation, and ...
May 4, 2024 · Stella flaunted his confidence with such sardonic titles for his black paintings as “The Marriage of Reason and Squalor” and, recklessly provocative, “Die Fahne Hoch!” (“Raise the Flag ...
