Artists’ Corner-Frank
Stella And The Abstract Expressionist Movement
Thad Lyons comment: I
was crazy for abstract art when I was a kid and that genre was fresh with guys
like Jackson Pollack breaking through the last vestiges of representational art
which dominated Western art for a few precious centuries. Then that movement kind
of turned on itself, or maybe better, ran out of steam once one could not tell
a piece of art work from the walls which surrounded the picture. Frank Stella put
himself front and center of some new energies when he took that basically sound
abstract art push away from representational art and brought back form, forms geometric
and curvilinear to tell his stories in paint. Not all of it worked, some of it
left the viewer bewildered but some of it pushed art forward when things looked
tough.
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