The name means 'black wisdom' in German. But it was art critic Clement Greenberg who converted him to Cuban cigars. Stella remembers opening the box on a train ride en route to his parents' house in Massachusetts and smoking his first Cuban cigar. It was strong and I really liked it. On another May morning, Stella is energetically into his work.
Today is a real work day.
He appreciates the streamlined simplicity of the cigar cutter. This would come as no surprise. He painted a second BMW, an M-1, for race car driver Peter Gregg. He found a red, foam rubber, cutout spiral soaker hat on a beach in Rio, gave it a twist, and used the shape to top a chapel he had designed as one of several buildings for a cultural mall in Dresden. I'm interested in what I see in terms of my past and present pictorial experience.