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Frank Stella - Harran II

Frank Stella Painting - Harran II, 1967 In the late 1960s, Frank Stella began his Protractor series, introducing an expanded vocabulary of angles, curves, and rich fluorescent colors. Named after ancient sites in Asia Minor, each of these paintings is defined by a symmetrical base of squares and circles, intersected by what Stella calls ‘interlaces,’ ‘rainbows,’ and ‘fans.’ While these bands vary in brightness and tone, their interwoven patterns compose a harmonious polyphony. There is no depth in the compositions; instead, through a unique play of color and form, the Protractor paintings exemplify the preeminence of flatness in Stella’s abstract work. Frank Stella broke the stronghold of Abstract Expressionism with his deceptively simple paintings of black stripes separated by narrow lines of unpainted canvas. With their emphasis on control and rationalism, the Black Paintings opened genuinely new paths for abstraction ...

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