Jane Burden Morris's video: Joseph Stella

Feliz Cumpleaños querida Consuelo!!! ✿♥ Muchos besos, Ernesto y Amalia https://www.youtube.com/user/abellaguera/featured Music: Manhã de Carnaval (Luiz Bonfá) by The Modern Jazz Quartet Joseph Stella ( Muro Lucano (Italy) 13 Jun 1877 - New York, 5 Nov 1946) Joseph Stella (born Giuseppe Michele Stella, June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s. Stella was born to a middle-class family in Italy, in Muro Lucano, a village near Napoles. His grandfather Antonio and his father Michele were attorneys, but he came to New York City in 1896 to study medicine, following in the foot steps of his older brother Doctor Antonio Stella. However, he quickly abandoned his medical studies and turned instead to art, enrrolling at the Art Students League and then at the New York School of Art. Stella returned to Italy in 1909. He was unhappy with America, writing that he longed to be back in his native land after "an enforced stay among enemies, in a black funereal land over which weighed ... the curse of a merciless climate." It was a well-timed decision. His return to Europe led to his first extensive contact with Modernism which would ultimately mold his distinctive personal style, notable for its strong color and sweeping and dynamic lines. Stella returned to America in 1913, and applied his futurist approach to the American industrial scene, glorifying it by lending to it a precisionist character . In 1920 Stella executed his first "Brooklyn Bridge" painting. He was to return to the theme as late as 1939. Stella became an American citizen in 1923. He made numerous trips abroad during the 1920s and 1930s. Visits to North Africa and Barbados inspired him to depict the spirit of a tropical environment in lush color and strong, centrally located forms. By the late 1930s, Stella's work attracted considerably less attention than it had in previous decades. His truculent personality had alienated many old friends, and his style no longer spoke to the times. Emotionally cut off from the New York art world, even his retrospective at the Newark Museum in 1939 failed to reestablish him. Diagnosed with heart disease in the early 1940s and subject to increasing periods of morbid anxiety, he succumbed to heart failure in 1946. He is interred in an impressive mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. ::::::::::::: Jane Burden Morris’ Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Laika231