Harran II

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the USA.

Polymer and fluorescent paint, canvas.

Unlike Stella’s early monochrome works, the one is distinguished by bright rainbow colours. Round shapes of multi-coloured stripes resembling targets are overlapped by no less bright squares. Such a compositional solution creates a kind of visual chaos on the canvas. The painting has an unusual figured shape, which is characteristic of the artist’s works in this period. The name for the picture was an ancient city in Asia Minor, where the artist made a creative journey in the mid-1960s.