Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and
printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of
minimalism and
post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to
Rock Tavern, New York. Stella's work catalyzed the minimalist movement in the late 1950s. He moved to New York City in the late 1950s, where he created works which emphasized the picture-as-object. These were influenced by the abstract expressionist work of artists like
Franz Kline and
Jackson Pollock. He developed a reductionist approach to his art, saying he wanted to demonstrate that for him, every painting is "a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more", and disavowed conceptions of art as a means of expressing emotion. He won notice in the New York
art world in 1959 when his four black pinstripe paintings were shown at the
Museum of Modern Art. Stella was a recipient of the
National Medal of Arts in 2009 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the
International Sculpture Center in 2011.
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