_I found this the other day - An artist I was obsessed with as a teenager for his 'over styled, over sized and overly painted' aestherics - Ace.
This was the second BMW 'Art Car' created by Frank Stella in 1976, the American artist and a passionate motor racing fan, who used a black and white square grid pattern taking inspiration from the technical graph-paper, and took it to this BMW 3.0 CSL coupé.
During his BMW Art Car conception, the American artist switched gears from his usual random style of painting and sought inspiration for the vehicle’s technical aura. The result: a black and white square quid with an evenness and precision reminiscent of oversized graph paper.
Within this grid, pattern-like, dotted lines run across the bodywork, suggesting that Stella may have wished to cut out the car and reassemble it in a new shape.
The grid pattern - a feature of both Stella’s earlier and later creative period - is often used by him as a kind of stage upon which a painted drama takes place. By way of contrast, the paintwork he created specially for the Le Mans race is not a stage, but the action itself.
No comments:
Post a Comment