Thursday, November 4, 2010

Self-reflexive painting

Frank Stella, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, 11 (1959), Enamel on canvas.



'In each half of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, 11, stripes outline stripes in an inverted U shape, a regular, self-generating pattern. Filling the canvas according to a methodological program, Stella suggests an idea of the artist as laborer or worker.'
The Museum of Modern Art, MOMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999, 23.
 

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