Frank Stella - Hyena Stomp
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Course Number and Title: 1511 Visual Theory
Lecturers: Melanie FerDon, Henry Symonds,
Lynnemaree Patterson Assignment Title: Research Essay Semester: 1
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One of the most influential and independent artists of the 19th Century was Frank Stella. In this essay I will discuss and analyse one of Stella’s most intricate and precise artworks, Hyena Stomp (Stella, 1962). Stella’s use of line and neat brushstrokes were a reaction to the dominant abstract expressionist movement of his early days. Instead his work was heavily influenced by his motivation to escape from representational artworks, and the desire to form his own style of painting. As will be discussed, Hyena Stomp fell neatly into the minimalist movement, the movement itself was characterised by the extreme simplicity of form and a literal, objective approach, which was also seen in works by other well know minimalist artists, such as; Dan Flavin and Donald Judd.
Frank Stella, 1962. Hyena stomp [Acrylic on canvas 195.6cm x 195.6 cm]. London, England: Tate Gallery.
Hyena Stomp forms part of a series painted between 1961 and 1964, for which Stella used either the basis of a square or a maze shape. Stella created a clockwise ‘spiral’ of stripes, where they enter in from the top right-hand corner in a deep red colour and then in which they change colour throughout the ‘spiral’. The stripes are taking the eye around decreasing spiral lengths until the artwork connects up into itself in the centre (Collins, Welchman, Chandler, Anfam, D, A.1997, pp. 169). It is made to look very complicated due to the centre being cut into three diagonals, and are created by the L-turn shapes of the stripes. The stripes have been painted in a sequence of eleven colours in the order of the spectrum, the colours are a
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Course Number and Title: 1511 Visual Theory
Lecturers: Melanie FerDon, Henry Symonds,
Lynnemaree Patterson Assignment Title: Research Essay Semester: 1
Due Date: 3p.m. Week 13 Thursday June 6, 2013
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One of the most influential and independent artists of the 19th Century was Frank Stella. In this essay I will discuss and analyse one of Stella’s most intricate and precise artworks, Hyena Stomp (Stella, 1962). Stella’s use of line and neat brushstrokes were a reaction to the dominant abstract expressionist movement of his early days. Instead his work was heavily influenced by his motivation to escape from representational artworks, and the desire to form his own style of painting. As will be discussed, Hyena Stomp fell neatly into the minimalist movement, the movement itself was characterised by the extreme simplicity of form and a literal, objective approach, which was also seen in works by other well know minimalist artists, such as; Dan Flavin and Donald Judd.
Frank Stella, 1962. Hyena stomp [Acrylic on canvas 195.6cm x 195.6 cm]. London, England: Tate Gallery.
Hyena Stomp forms part of a series painted between 1961 and 1964, for which Stella used either the basis of a square or a maze shape. Stella created a clockwise ‘spiral’ of stripes, where they enter in from the top right-hand corner in a deep red colour and then in which they change colour throughout the ‘spiral’. The stripes are taking the eye around decreasing spiral lengths until the artwork connects up into itself in the centre (Collins, Welchman, Chandler, Anfam, D, A.1997, pp. 169). It is made to look very complicated due to the centre being cut into three diagonals, and are created by the L-turn shapes of the stripes. The stripes have been painted in a sequence of eleven colours in the order of the spectrum, the colours are a
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