1914, Joseph Stella, Coney Island -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: 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 (see Gallery 908), which Stella was exposed to during a trip to Italy and France in 1910-11. The composition's circular, or tondo, format links it to Renaissance depictions of holy subjects.
1914, Joseph Stella, Coney Island -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: 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 (see Gallery 908), which Stella was exposed to during a trip to Italy and France in 1910-11. The composition's circular, or tondo, format links it to Renaissance depictions of holy subjects.