Coolness vs. Passion:
Frank Stella's Abstract Designs and Dana Schutz's Narrative Frenzy of Color
Frank Stella's massive 1967 painting entitled Haran II takes the form of a geometric design that seems deceptively simple at first but becomes more and more complex as the viewer gazes upon it. The work is a series of rectangles and half-circles fused together with bright rainbows of colors embedded within them. The painting is childish in its brightness. The color palette strikes the modern viewer as very much of the 1960s and 70s with its garish orange and blue shades counterpoised against brown and red earth tones. Dana Schutz's 2015 Fight in an Elevator is similarly arresting in its brightness but in contrast to Stella's use of abstraction, Schutz's Cubist-Futurist approach has a narrative sense of form. The work depicts a swirl of fists and legs. A brown-skinned woman in high heels fights with a man in a baggy white suit but their faces are not evident, merely the conflict in which they are engaged. Stella's work is flat and deliberately one-dimensional while Schutz's is highly layered, with a busy visual field to suggest the two protagonists' angry, conflicted motions.
Frank Stella has been credited with revolutionizing Abstract Expressionism by introducing a radical new aesthetic. In 1959 his series of "coolly impersonal black striped paintings" were said to lack the "gestural brushwork and existential angst" of Jackson Pollock's works and other Abstract Expressionists.[footnoteRef:1] They were immediately well-received by critics of the era and set the tone of Stella's later works which focused on the use of color and dimension. Stella rejected the notion that art was an expression of the inner life of the artist and instead advanced the idea that paintings should be solely about form itself. He was a pioneer of nonrepresentational painting and resisted any attempts to ascribe "underlying meanings, emotions, or narratives" to his work and stated they were simply about the principles of "line, plane, volume, and point, within space" and "color, shape, and composition."[footnoteRef:2] [1: "Frank Stella," The Art Story, accessed December 16, 2015, http://www.theartstory.org/artist-stella-frank.htm] [2: Ibid.]
Dana Schutz, in contrast, gained immediate attention as an artist because of her merging of emotion and geometry in what has been called a Cubist-Futurist style. Her works are very explicitly narrative (although...
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