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Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Le Neveu de Rameau
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

Le Neveu de Rameau

Artist/Maker (United States, b. 1936)
Date1974
Mediumacrylic on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 135 x 135 in. (342.9 x 342.9 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Martin Z. Margulies
Terms
    Object number85.0191
    DescriptionStella's rejection of the expressive brushwork and rich palette of the Abstract Expressionists who preceded him is evident in this work from the series entitled Diderot, after the French encyclopedist and critic. In these huge geometric variations on his earlier, smaller, Concentric Squares, Stella favored a neutral, controlled imagery that derives its composition and content from the shape of the canvas. The painting owes its visual excitement to the conflict between the extravagance of its size and the simplicity of the concentric bands of color, which reflect the depth of the stretcher. The artist has created a vigorous dialogue, really a visual contradiction, between the flatness and thickness of the individual widths of color. Stella repeatedly used the pictorial rectangle, appreciating it for what he considered its consistent power and strength. He has indicated that it set a rigorous standard against which he measured his later, more painterly work.
    On View
    On view
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    James Rosenquist
    1974
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    James Rosenquist
    1974
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    James Rosenquist
    1974
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    James Rosenquist
    1974
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Claude Monet
    1903
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    Justus van Egmont
    after 1656
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    Colima
    ca. 300 BCE-300 CE
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Charles Joseph Biederman
    1937
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    ca. 1830
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    1934-1936 (printed 1992)