Robert Longo is known for his renditions of iconic scenes from cinema or print media such as his Men in the Cities graphite drawings series where he redraws the bodies of fatally-wounded characters as if dancing. In this drawing, he opted to “recreate” one of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings. Longo apparently based his recreation of Point of Pines, titled after a promontory in the Massachusetts Bay, on the lithographs Stella made of the Black Paintings series in 1967, much more similar in size than the larger than human-size canvas. In his meticulous graphite drawing, Longo goes small, reversing Stella’s grand gesture and questioning the canon of modernist painting that had by then become mythological.