Joseph Stella's The Battle Of Lights

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In the year of 1877, an Italian American Painter was born and his name is Joseph Stella. He was born to a middle class family in Muro Lucan, Italy. Stella’s grandfather and father was attorney, so Joseph decides to go to the United States and study medicine. However, Joseph was only studying medicine because his older brother is a Doctor, then he took an interest in art. Stella attended as a full time in the Art Students League then went to New York School of Art, one of the finest art and quiet expensive, but was worth it. He began to work as an illustrator, started to publish a couple of his drawing into magazines. Joseph went to Paris on the 1910s that is where he met Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, both of them introduced him to their works of art plus encountered in futurism. A method of painting is Futurism attempting to express the properties of speed, objects, cities and motion. Later on, Joseph went back to American and his first masterpiece, The Battle of Lights, Coney Island. The Battle of Lights, is an oil painting, it was an inspiration for him to travel to Coney Island and experience the lifetime. The image down below of Battle of Lights, you can geometric shape, lines and bright, but light colors. Stella was trying to capture the sights and atmospheres of his surroundings for an urban environment. …show more content…

He is best known for the Brooklyn Bridge painting, the blinking lights at the bottom of the image and there’s the crisscrossed wires which indicates the movement through space. The medium or technique used on the painting is oil in canvas. Stella describes The Brooklyn Bridge as a memorial for all the efforts of the new civilization of American. He uses exciting and motion modern style on the Brooklyn Bridge painting, notable for sweeping and dynamic

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