During his undergraduate years at Princeton University, Walter Darby Bannard joined fellow students, the painter Frank Stella and the critic and art historian Michael Fried, in conversations that expanded aesthetic definitions and led to an emphasis on opticality as the defining feature of pictorial art. Bannard continued to explore attributes of color, paint, and surface through innovative methods, striving throughout his career for vital and original expressive means. He was also an important writer on formalist issues in art, serving as an editor for Artforum and a contributor to Art International. His extensive publications date from the 1960s to the end of his life. In the early 1990s, Bannard moved to Miami, where he served as professor and head of painting at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. [Walter Darby Bannard “Lupino” 2015 acrylic on canvas 50 1/2 x 56 inches] #walterdarbybannard #darbybannard #bannard #frankstella #michaelfried #princeton #acrylicpainting #abstractart #abstraction #mixedmedia #universityofmiami #coralgables #colorfield #colorpainting #spacerelations #nycart #chelseagalleries #estaterepresentation #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3pCprFulB/?igshid=8bc12pwb4z4e
