Talk:Joseph Stella

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Returning to New York in 1913, after exposing a post-impressionist still life to Armory Show, the first major exhibition of European artists in New York, where he saw the famous and scandalous Nu descendant un escalier (Nude Descending a Staircase) by Marcel Duchamp, he completed his early futurist works, "Battle of Lights, Mardi Gras, Coney Island", showing a kaleidoscope of color and use "lines of force" which fragment the objects, thus emphasizing the ideas of the Futurist manifesto. Later he participated in the New York Dada art movement with Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, bcreated in cultural salon of Louise and Walter Arensberg and was the material buyer of an industrial urinal renamed Fountain, signed by Marcel Duchamp with the pseudonym R. Mutt, and presented at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917, one of the most famous episodes of the revolutionary Dadaist poetry. The fountain of Stella-Duchamp, however, was deliberately destroyed before the opening by one of the organizers, William Glackens. One of his most important paintings, made between 1917 and 1918, was the "Brooklyn Bridge", about which Star said: « Steel and electricity had created a new world. A new Drama had surged from the unmerciful violations of darkness at night, by the violent blaze of electricity and a new polyphony was ringing all around with the scintillating highly-colored lights. The steel has leaped to hyperbolic altitudes and expanded to vast latitudes with the skyscrapers and with bridges made for the conjunction of worlds. » (Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol) During his life many times portrayed Stella the Brooklyn Bridge, making it one of the recurring themes and emblematic of his painting. Equally famous is the "Voice of the City of New York interpreted" (1920-22), an altarpiece with five panels like an altarpiece, in which the religious figures are replaced by skyscrapers and bridges of Manhattan. The core idea is to describe the industry as the linchpin of modern life, as pervasive element that was gradually replacing religion. The work is currently owned by the Newark Museum.[2] He became citizen of the United States in 1923. In 1942 he began to suffer from heart problems, while a little later he had an accidental fall into the pit of an elevator, from which he never recovered. He died last November 5, 1946, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, located in the borough of the Bronx, New York.Modernist (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

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