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She writes, “It is precisely the marriage of reason and squalor—the union of control and flow, the matings between differences, the pleasures of conjugation—that allows the procreation of meaning in the Black Paintings (to pursue Andre’s analogy.)”
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II debuted at The Museum of Modern Art in December 1959, one of four works from Stella’s Black Paintings series (1958–60) included in curator Dorothy C. Miller’s landmark exhibition Sixteen Americans. Miller invited the young artist to participate in the show after visiting his studio that summer.
‘The Marriage of Reason and Squalor’ was created in 1959 by Frank Stella in Minimalism style. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Mar 7, 2024 · “The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II,” created by Frank Stella in 1959, is an outstanding work that shows his transition from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional abstraction phase. This monumental work, with a size of 6×11 feet, presents with a dynamic tangling of shapes, colors, and textures that cannot miss the visitor’s gaze.
- Frank Stella
- Abstract expressionism
- 1959
- Mixed media on canvas
May 4, 2024 · The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II Belonging to the artist's groundbreaking series Black Paintings, The Marriage of Reason and Squalor is composed of black inverted parallel U-shapes containing stripes separated by thin lines of unpainted canvas.
- American
- May 12, 1936
- Malden, Massachusetts
- May 4, 2024
Those works—e.g., The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, II (1959)—were included in the landmark exhibition “Sixteen Americans” at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1959–60. He had his first solo exhibition in 1960 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, also in New York City.
Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to Rock Tavern, New York.
