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Julian StanczakRows1970
1970
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Rows, 1970, by Julian Stanczak (1928-2017)
Acrylic on canvas
27 ¼ x 27 ¼ inches unframed (69.215 x 69.215 cm)
28 ½ x 28 ½ inches framed (72.39 x 72.39 cm)
Signed on reverse
Dated and inscribed (Rows) on reverse on the stretcher
Provenance:
Martha Jackson Gallery
New York Private Collection
Purchased in 1971 by estate
Description:
Julian Stanczak is one of the key founders of Op Art, an artistic movement that was most prominent in the 1960s. Stanczak quickly became renowned as an Op artist after exhibiting at the Martha Jackson Gallery and MOMA for his involvement with this movement. The artist studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Yale University before becoming a teacher at the former. In his work, Stanczak uses gridlike patterns and geometrical compositions to simulate a sense of movement through a particular arrangement of shapes and lines. His innovation was heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionism.
In the acrylic painting "Rows," the most important element for Stanczak is color. With just three tones-- a bright orange, a lively green, and a blue-- the artist is able to simulate variation by juxtaposing varying line weights. The strips of orange, for example, in becoming thinner as they descend down each of the rows, create the illusion of a purple when they mix with the blue background. This painting is, therefore, a distinct meditation on the overlaps between rigidity, color, and expression, a transformation of the practices of other color-interested artists like Mark Rothko. While lacking the expression of artists like Rothko, the geometry of Stanczak's "Rows" still gives way to variation and interest.
- Creator:Julian Stanczak (1928, American)
- Creation Year:1970
- Dimensions:Height: 27.25 in (69.22 cm)Width: 27.25 in (69.22 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1637210312382
Julian Stanczak
Julian Stanczak was born in Borownica, Poland in 1928. At the beginning of World War II, Stanczak was forced into a Siberian labor camp, where he permanently lost the use of his right arm. He had been right-handed. In 1942, aged thirteen, Stanczak escaped from Siberia to join the Anders' Army in Persia. After deserting from the army, he spent his teenage years in a hut in a Polish refugee camp in Uganda. In Africa, Stanczak learned to write and paint left-handed. He then spent some years in London, before moving to the United States in 1950. He settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He became a United States citizen in 1957, taught at the Cincinnati Academy of Art for 7 years. The Op Art movement was named after his first major show, Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings, held at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1964. His work was included in the Museum of Modern Art's 1965 exhibition The Responsive Eye. In 1966 he was named a "New Talent" by Art in America magazine. In the early 1960s he began to make the surface plane of the painting vibrate through his use of wavy lines and contrasting colors in works such as Provocative Current (1965). These paintings gave way to more complex compositions constructed with geometric rigidity yet softened with varying degrees of color transparency such as Netted Green (1972). In addition to being an artist, Stanczak was also a teacher, having worked at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1957–64 and as Professor of Painting, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1964-1995. He was named "Outstanding American Educator" by the Educators of America in 1970. (Wikipedia)
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