Pocket Guide -> Media -> Mixed media on etched magnesium, aluminum, canvas, and fiberglass -> La vecchia dell'orto, 3.8x
La vecchia dell'orto, 3.8x
by Frank Stella · American, born 1936
| Creation Date: | 1986 |
| Media & Support: | Mixed media on etched magnesium, aluminum, canvas, and fiberglass |
| Dimensions: | 163 ¾ x 190 ¼ x 32 ½ inches |
| Credit: | Museum Purchase, Estate of Michael J. Fletcher, the Howald Fund and the Joyce and Willis Coffman Fund; and the Estate of Robert Bartels; with the assistance of the Pizzuti Family |
Frank Stella is best known for his shaped canvases of the 1960s, which were painted in brightly colored stripes. In the late 1970s, he turned to a bolder, more dynamic expression, creating painted and constructed reliefs such as this one. This piece is number twenty in the Cones and Pillars series. The titles of works in this series are taken from Italian folktales, and they represent Stella’s desire to reintroduce narrative drama into abstract painting. Here, to his stripes and colors of the 1960s, Stella has added a third dimension and a sense of tumultuous motion.
