2007.11 Stanczak, Fractiones

Julian Stanczak’s paintings are commonly associated with the Op Art movement, a term coined by Donald Judd after seeing Stanczak’s influential show at Martha Jackson Gallery in 1964. Stanczak developed a new visual vocabulary that reflected a concern for the manipulation of color, shapes,  and lines within an optical field; however, the artist, along with his mentor Josef Albers, disapproved of the term "Optical Painting." Instead, they considered "perceptual art" a more suitable definition for the visual experience of Stanczak’s paintings. Depending on where one stands, Fractiones reveals a subtle linear progression of parallel green and pink lines that appear to move across the bright orange surface. Soft square shapes emerge, creating a perceptual  phenomenon that transforms the passive viewer into an active participant.

Albers_Josef: ULAN: 500033049

Until 2007: Elizabeth M. and Duncan E. Boeckman

2007: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Elizabeth M. and Duncan E. Boeckman

The main source for this provenance is the Deed of Gift, dated February 12, 2007, copy in Dallas Museum of Art Collections Records object file. 

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