What Is Getty Tomb By Frank Stella?
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Analysis of ‘Getty Tomb’ by Frank Stella!
Walking through the galleries at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), it was difficult to choose just one piece of art to analyze. However there was one particularly intriguing yet minimalist piece that stood apart from the rest. The piece was called
Getty Tomb, by Frank Stella. It was an abstract; nonfigurative square canvas that was methodically covered with a series of flat unmodulated black rectangular bars, separated by thin white lines. After viewing the piece and many others at LACMA, it became clear that something had seemed slightly mysterious in its simplicity about Stella’s "Getty Tomb," and a quest for understanding and analysis of both the artist and work had begun.! Frank Stella began his career with relative ease at the early age of 23 in New …show more content…
By the mid-1960s he was in the forefront of the Post Painterly abstraction group which was comprised of artists who were reacting to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism (Rubin 45). Nonfigurative painting presented itself as the highest of the plastic arts–the most spiritual, philosophical, and pure. Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Roscoe related this in part to the elimination from the picture of references to things of this world (Stiles 6). Frank Stella has seen that total abstraction need not be limited in this manner. While Mondrian had proven that great nonfigurative paintings also had staying power, Stella has shown it can also have range and variety. (Stiles 7)!
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Analysis of ‘Getty Tomb’ by Frank Stella!
Walking through the galleries at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), it was difficult to choose just one piece of art to analyze. However there was one particularly intriguing yet minimalist piece that stood apart from the rest. The piece was called
Getty Tomb, by Frank Stella. It was an abstract; nonfigurative square canvas that was methodically covered with a series of flat unmodulated black rectangular bars, separated by thin white lines. After viewing the piece and many others at LACMA, it became clear that something had seemed slightly mysterious in its simplicity about Stella’s "Getty Tomb," and a quest for understanding and analysis of both the artist and work had begun.! Frank Stella began his career with relative ease at the early age of 23 in New …show more content…
By the mid-1960s he was in the forefront of the Post Painterly abstraction group which was comprised of artists who were reacting to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism (Rubin 45). Nonfigurative painting presented itself as the highest of the plastic arts–the most spiritual, philosophical, and pure. Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Roscoe related this in part to the elimination from the picture of references to things of this world (Stiles 6). Frank Stella has seen that total abstraction need not be limited in this manner. While Mondrian had proven that great nonfigurative paintings also had staying power, Stella has shown it can also have range and variety. (Stiles 7)!
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