Coney Island, 1914, Oil on canvas, Diameter: 41-3/4 in. (106 cm.), Paintings, Joseph Stella (American (born Italy) Muro Lucano 1877–1946 New York, New York), A kaleidoscope of dazzling color and fragmented form, Stella’s abstract painting evokes the electric lights and energetic crowds of Brooklyn’s Coney Island amusement park and boardwalk. Celebrating the intoxicating and sometimes disorienting dynamism of modern life, Coney Island reveals the painter’s knowledge of Italian Futurism, which Stella was exposed to during a trip to Italy and France in 1910–11
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Coney Island, 1914, Oil, canvas, Diameter, 41-3/4, 106 cm, Paintings, Joseph Stella, American, born Italy, Muro Lucano, 1877–1946, New York, kaleidoscope, dazzling color, fragmented form, Stella, abstract, painting, evokes, electric lights, energetic crowds, Brooklyn, Coney, Island, amusement, park, boardwalk, Celebrating, intoxicating, sometimes disorienting, dynamism, modern life, reveals, painter, knowledge, Italian Futurism, exposed, trip, Italy, France, 1910–11
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