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kchayka: weeklyartist: Frank Stella “The Quadrant” Mixed media on etched magnesium 1987-1988 In which Frank Stella looks like Photoshopped net art Whoa, true. I kind of hate Frank Stella, but he seems like a worthwhile point of reference in relation to today’s wave of nouveau-formalism and abstraction (about which I am decidedly ambivalent). On a similar note, right at the end of my undergrad, I took a seminar on 80s art in which, aside from some of the more obvious people (Koons, Sherman, Levine, Prince, Sturtevant, the Neo-Expressionists), we talked a bunch about Matt Mullican, Haim Steinbach, James Welling, Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, and Ross Bleckner and I remember thinking, “Man, this shit is so dated and irrelevant now.” BOOM, a few years later young artists are totally talking about them again. Welling might be the only one out of the bunch I genuinely like.

kchayka:

weeklyartist:

Frank Stella

“The Quadrant”

Mixed media on etched magnesium

1987-1988

In which Frank Stella looks like Photoshopped net art

Whoa, true. I kind of hate Frank Stella, but he seems like a worthwhile point of reference in relation to today’s wave of nouveau-formalism and abstraction (about which I am decidedly ambivalent).

On a similar note, right at the end of my undergrad, I took a seminar on 80s art in which, aside from some of the more obvious people (Koons, Sherman, Levine, Prince, Sturtevant, the Neo-Expressionists), we talked a bunch about Matt Mullican, Haim Steinbach, James Welling, Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, and Ross Bleckner and I remember thinking, “Man, this shit is so dated and irrelevant now.” BOOM, a few years later young artists are totally talking about them again. Welling might be the only one out of the bunch I genuinely like.

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