"To Joseph Stella and other progressive artists of the early twentieth century, the timeworn conventions of European painting seemed powerless to convey the dynamism of modern life. An Italian immigrant, Stella arrived in New York City at a time of unprecedented urban growth and social change in America. He first encountered the new approaches of modernist painting on a trip to Paris and took particular interest in Futurism, an Italian movement that claimed to be “violently revolutionary” in its opposition to the traditions that had prevailed in art ever since the Renaissance. Upon returning to the United States, Stella himself converted to Futurism, convinced that only its new vision of reality could capture the complexities of the machine age"
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"JOSEPH STELLA [1877–1946 Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1919–1920]," in: Picturing America, (2008) p. 74
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Joseph Stella
Joseph Stella (June 13, 1877 – June 11, 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America.
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