Frank Stella, Atvatabar

Frank Stella, Atvatabar, 1996, lithograph

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  • 1) Hourse falling from the sky
    2) crazy red spi­ral to death
    3) guer­nica bulls head in grey
    4) upsidetown pen­du­lum sketches
    5) kids spi­ral­graph­ing toys
    6) stella!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    7) cut/collage
    8) why so much swirl?
    9) 90s avatar con­cept­ing
    10) ratio inter­ac­tive via art

  • 1 ooh I get all scratchy look­ing at this. The mid­dle lines make it all bub­bly. The b & w cir­cles make it like a record. An old vinyl record.
    2 and then there is this col­lage plopped on top of the record. What is the song . I am attracted to the black burnt thing in the lower mid­dle. The brite red
    3 cours­ing from the left and beek­ing back out at the top. We have lots of types of swirls. Multi color. Gold. Yel­low and black. An arrow is shoot­ing from top l to bot­tom r.
    4 ahh the arrow is a bal­ancer. The orga­nizer. Rich with col­ors because its in charge. It is soak­ing up the col­ors form all the other ener­gies. And we are talk­ing about dif­fer­ent ener­gies. Like a sym­phony. The music is clas­si­cal. Punk clas­si­cal. I said that because of a per­sonal prej­u­dice
    5 I affirm the bal­ance because on the record the N-S axis is made clear by the wavy lines that devi­ate from the
    6 full cir­cles. So the entire piece is tiled to be a about 730. PM or AM? Then there is also this earthy spot­ted piece like mold. There is the brown mold and the black mold that seems apart from the energy swirls
    7 and the red blast. Rocket fuel no doubt to feed into the bal­anc­ing arrow.
    8 an exer­cise in pure aes­thetic beauty. More like a jazz sym­phony a la dizzy in the 50’s. How far can we push
    9 this free think­ing thing and keep the sem­blance of order? Now that I have blasted it apart it really hangs together. Cule DAD. Cue bon­gos at the intro. I starts to move now that I am past break­ing it apart.
    10 and there is a hint of the sun send­ing a float of energy because the record is grey at the top and black at the bot­tom. A view of earth from space with a really jazzy blurry lens.

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