Semester 1 Final
Frank Stella
Frank Stella's life and training-
​ This painting is in the modern art museum of Fort Worth. He had originally painted on an abstract style. but soon after moving to New York he had begun to work on a series of innovative paintings marked by an austere and monumental simplicity of design. And then In the early 1960s Stella painted a series of progressively more complex variations on the theme of the frame to determined design and used both metallic-colored paints and irregularly shaped canvases. And he also started working a lot with geometric shapes over time and incorporated them into his paintings. He grew up and went to school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Construction and plan -
I first started by rolling out clay that had a thickness of about a 1/4 of an inch,
Then I cut out one square and 4 rectangles that are all the same height and the same width as the square I had previously cut out.
I then smoothed the sides and slipped and scored the parts that I was going to attach to the base of the box.
Then I kept on making several other sides that progressively got smaller, and attached them to the inside of the first box I made.
Then I smoothed it all out again and set it out to dry and get put in the kiln.
Once it was out of the kiln I painted it using several different colors of gloss glazes.
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​Interest
This image interested me because I thought it was cool how when you look at it, it kind of looks 3D , and it looked simple to recreate.
Reflection-
I don't think that my piece turned out exactly how I wanted it to. If I were to re-do this piece I would do several things differently, like I would start it earlier and not procrastinate and rush doing it. I would also take my time smoothing everything out and make sure the lines of the glaze are straight and even. And if I didn't rush I could've made it bigger and added more squares on the inside.
Site used to research- .artnet.com, and britannica.com
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