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Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)

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Asbury Park High School: Blast off into 2026!!!!!

Asbury Park High School: Blast off into 2026!!!!!

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Fröhliche Weihnachten, Trenton!

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[Artwork of the week] – Delaware Crossing, 1961 by Frank Stella

Delaware Crossing is one of a series of six minimalists works that Frank Stella (b. 1936) called his Benjamin Moore Paintings. Benjamin Moore being the brand of paint he used to cover his canvasses. Each of the six large-scale canvases in this early series employ one of six distinct symmetric patterns executed in one of six primary or secondary colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). Early on in his career, Stella became intrigued by the Benjamin Moore paints he had seen on the sample cards of commercial paint dealers. During his first six months in New York, in 1958, Stella supported himself primarily by painting apartments; this experience remained a core element of his practice, as he decided to employ only the six primary and secondary colours readily available in commercial cans of house paint. Stella famously wished “to keep the paint as good as it was in the can,” attracted by the matte normality of these utilitarian paints. The esteemed group of Benjamin Moore paintings debuted in the artist’s first European one-man show at Galerie Lawrence in Paris in 1961. Almost ten years later, all six are reproduced together again in the Museum of Modern Art's 1987 retrospective catalogue, but only Delaware Crossing was included in that landmark travelling show.  At Galerie Lawrence Rubin, the 1961 show also included 35 of the smaller 12 by 12 inch versions of the same six patterns and palette. These smaller variations received particular attention from Andy Warhol, who asked Stella in 1962 to paint him a set of six, now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. While the five other works in the Benjamin Moore series are titled after Civil War battles, Delaware Crossing further stands out from the group as the only one to invoke the American Revolution. In William Rubin's words, "there are in Stella's art—and it is an aspect of its relative accessibility—the vestiges of a certain banality. Yet it is precisely when life's commonplaces are amplified by the spirit of genius that the truly universal work of art is born" (exhibition catalogue, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Frank Stella 1970-1987, 1987, p. 7).

Stella sought to make paintings that would rigorously exclude not only representation but also the romantic individualist goals of self-expression and spontaneity. The use of colour is neither emotive nor decorative. The viewer is confronted with a painted surface that is neither more nor less than exactly that.

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Frank Stella - Delaware Crossing

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Remember The Time Warp Trio? Now, meet the Left Behinds!

Remember The Time Warp Trio? Now, meet the Left Behinds! @DPotterBooks @netgalley @randomhousekids

The Left Behinds and the iPhone That Saved George Washington, by David Potter (Jan. 2015, Random House) $16.99, ISBN: 9780385390569

Recommended for ages 10-14

Mel and his schoolmates, Brandon and Bev, are the Left-Behinds: children of wealthy and/or famous parents who make little time for them, they’re shipped off to boarding school and spend the holidays there. On a holiday school trip, the…

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