Frank Stella:
A Retrospective
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Listen to an audio guide highlighting selected works in Frank Stella: A Retrospective with narration by students from PS 33 Chelsea Prep and Whitney Museum educator Mark Joshua Epstein.
Mark Joshua Epstein: The title for this work is Khar-Pidda, and kharpidda is an Indian name for a bird that in English, we call a common stonechat, and it’s a bird that migrates to India in the winter, and Frank Stella did a trip to India in the 1970s, and saw some of these birds. What’s really interesting about this bird and the connection to the title for me is that the common stonechat is not a beautiful bird. It’s not a colorful bird. It’s sort of brown and grey and has maybe some orange on its throat.
So, I find it fascinating that Frank Stella can look at something that maybe isn’t beautiful, isn’t full of beautiful colors, and make something as dynamic as this, and I wonder if he was thinking a little bit about flight and this idea of migration and of birds moving around because this piece really feels like it’s flying around the wall, almost.
- 530 Introduction to Frank Stella: A Retrospective
- 531 Frank Stella, Das Erdbeben in Chili [N#3] (The Earthquake in Chile), 1999
- 532 Frank Stella, Die Fahne hoch!, 1959
- 533 Frank Stella, Empress of India, 1965
- 534 Frank Stella, Effingham II, 1966
- 535 Frank Stella, Jasper’s Dilemma, 1962
- 536 Frank Stella, Gobba, zoppa e collotorto, 1985
- 537 Frank Stella, Zeltweg (V), 4.75X, 1982
- 538 Frank Stella, Khar-pidda, 1978
- 539 Frank Stella, The Fountain, 1992
- 541 Frank Stella, Circus of Pure Feeling for Malevich, 4 Square Circus, 16 parts, 2009
- 542 Frank Stella, K.81 combo (K.37 and K.43) large size, 2009
- 540 Frank Stella, Raft of the Medusa (Part I), 1990
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