FRANK STELLA "AVERROES" LITHO, 1970 American Modernism While Town's abstract works had

While Town's abstract works had traditionally been critically and commercially embraced

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FRANK STELLA "AVERROES" LITHO, 1970 American Modernism While Town's abstract works hadIf one is interested in Frank Stella's association with Op Art, his hypnotic and minimal "Aluminum Series" from 1970 is a great introduction. The "Aluminum Series" prints were based on paintings he created in 1961. The titles were inspired by mostly literary allusions. In these works, Stella unites several of his most marked and insurgent artistic elements; the shaped canvas, the absence of color, the use of household paints, irrational geometry, and