Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Brown's "Red Zip," for example, uses Kenneth Noland's ruler-straight horizontal stripes. The painting concerns itself with color relativity-two burgundy stripes surround a red one, two reds an orange, and two oranges a yellow, reading down the canvas. Alex Packer's "Blues Progression" is a similar...
...QUESTION of what to paint continually haunts a contemporary artist. The monumental canvases of recent years have been stripped to rectangles of few colors with a minimum of activity inside the frame. The constant purifying of the medium leads to the dilemma of what can come next. Frank Stella, a particularly inventive artist, has opened painting in a new direction by changing the traditional shape of the canvas. In the process of experiment, his paintings have led him beyond the rectangular frame to shapes of triangle, rectangle, and circle...
A retrospective exhibition of his work, currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, shows how he has changed from black rectangles patterned with a design of pinstripes done in 1958 to bold inventions of interlocked geometrical forms. No single canvas in his group of paintings can make...
With a burst into more daring shapes. Stella gave up pinstripes and fired the canvas with new color. At first glance, "Chocorua," named for a New Hampshire mountain, looks like a triangle imposed upon a rectangle, piercing the edge. But on closer scrutiny, this drawing is complex. Wide bands of...
Quite soon after these painters, some American artists reckoned with European art and brought a revolution. Nineteenth century America was too young to worry about more than the facts that could be put on the canvas. Transformation of all parts of American life had to occur before art could break...