Joseph Stella

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1877 - 1946 • American • Painter • Futurist

"[It is a] weird metallic apparition under a metallic sky, out of proportion with the winged lightness of its arch ... massive dark towers dominating the surrounding tumult of surging skyscrapers with their gothic majesty sealed in the purity of their arches ... the shrine containing all the efforts of the new civilization, America-the eloquent meeting point of all the forces arising in a superb assertion of their powers, an Apotheosis." - Joseph Stella

The only American artist to come directly under the influence of the Italian FUTURISTS-no doubt because he was born in Italy-immigrated to New York when he was 19 and returned to study in Italy and Paris between 1909 and 1912. He was in Paris when the Futurists had their first exhibition there in February 1912. The year after his return to the United States, Stella painted a brilliant example of Futurism's dynamism in Battle of Lights, Coney Island (1913; one of a series). The elements of Coney Island's amusement park are fractured into multitudes of small, geometric, kaleidoscopic forms in strong, pure, bright colors. Slanted "force lines" add to the painting's honky-tonk glitter and energy. Stella painted Futurist interpretations of the Brooklyn Bridge, a subject that fascinated many of his contemporaries. Excerpts from his commentary on the bridge are quoted above. Stella was among the founders of the SOCIETE ANONYME INC.