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Frank Stella Went From Bauhaus to Fun House
He was consumed with abstract painting and determined to keep it alive even when it became an unpopular cause among younger artists.
Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with “The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain,” which measures 100 feet long. A breathtaking painting and sculpture of geometric and ornamental elements and colors, it seems to pop out of the canvas.Credit...Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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“If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.”
—Archibald MacLeish
#BornOnThisDay, Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and playwright associated with the modern school of poetry.
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois after his father left his home in Scotland for Chicago and met Martha Hillard, a college president from a wealthy family. After graduating from boarding school in Connecticut he studied at Yale, where he wrote and edited for the Yale Literary Magazine. Two years after graduating, he published his first poetry collection, TOWER OF IVORY, in 1917.
After returning home from working as a volunteer ambulance driver during WWI, MacLeish worked as a lawyer. Though he was successful, his job distracted him from his true passion, writing. The day he was named partner at his firm, he quit to pursue writing and moved his family to France. There, he met and befriended other writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Ezra Pound. Over the next few years in France, he published four more poetry collections.
MacLeish returned to the US in 1928 and began researching for his epic poem, CONQUISTADOR. For this work, he won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Over the course of his life, he won another Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1952 for his COLLECTED POEMS, 1917-1952, as well as a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for J.B., a play based on the book of Job.
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