Another big lost this week! R.I.P. Frank Stella!
Frank Stella (1936-2024), was anAmerican painter, and one of the most dominant and influential figures in abstract painting during the 1960s through the 1990s.
Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover (1950-1954), where he studied painting with Patrick Morgan. Stella graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor of arts degree in history in 1958. Frank Stella, an iconic figure of postwar American art, is considered the most influential painter of a generation that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism toward Minimalism. In his early work, Stella attempted to drain any external meaning or symbolism from painting, reducing his images to geometric form and eliminating illusionistic effects.
Frank Stella is best known for his use of geometric patterns and shapes. Arguably one of the most important living American artists, Stella painted with the intent to flatten surfaces and often chose shaped canvases, exploring Minimalism in his earlier works and graduating to maximalist paintings involving relief and sculptural elements in the 1970s. He was influenced by fellow American painter Jasper Johns after viewing his first solo exhibition. “No art is any good unless you can feel how it’s put together,” he once said. “By and large it’s the eye, the hand and if it’s any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist’s body; you can really lean on it.”
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Mr. Frank Stella |
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Hyena Stomp, 1962 |
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Ifafa II, 1964 |
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Untitled (Rabat), 1964 |
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Empress of India, 1965 |
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Effingham II, 1966 |
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Harran II, 1967 |
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Hatra I, 1967 |
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Hiraqla-35, 1968 |
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Akht-i-Sulayman Variation I, 1969 from the Protractor Series |
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Isfahan, 1979 |
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Damascus Gate (Stretch Variation III) 1970 |
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Khurasan Gate variation II, 1970 |
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River of ponds, 1971 |
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Kamionka Strumilowa IV, 1972 |
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Art car BMW, 1976 detail |
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Then came a Dog and Bit the Cat, 1984 |
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La penna di hu, 1985
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Gobba Zoppa and Collotorto, 1986 |
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The Decanter, 1986 |
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Hooloomooloo IV, 1994 |
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Coxuria, 1997 |
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At Sainte-Luce-Hoango, 1998 |
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Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X, 1998 |
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k-54, 2008 |
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La penna di hu, 2009 |
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Redjang, 2009. |
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Retrospective K.81, 2009 combo (K.37 and K.43) |
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K.150, 2014 |
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K. 304, 2014 - the making |
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K. 304, 2014 Under snow |
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K. 304, 2014 |
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Amsterdam, 2015 |
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