Frank Stella
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American painter and printmaker (1936–2024)
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Frank Stella was an artist born on May 12, 1936, who passed away on May 4, 2024. He is associated with the Netherlands and has been referenced by 566 other encyclopedia articles. His body of work includes 44 entries in the Open Library database and five works listed in Crossref records.
Stella is noted for specific statements regarding visual art, including the assertion that "Only what can be seen there [in the painting] is there.. .What you see is what you see." He also commented on the work of Ad Reinhardt, stating, "If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about."
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Key facts
- Born
- Frank Philip Stella , ( 1936-05-12 ) May 12, 1936, Malden, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04) (aged 87), New York City, U.S.
- Known for
- Painter printmaker sculpture architect
- Movement
- Modernism minimal art abstract expressionism geometric abstraction abstract illusionism lyrical abstraction hard-edge painting shaped canvas painting color field painting
- Awards
- Charles Eliot Norton Lectures – Harvard University , 1984 Working Space , National Medal of Arts , 2009 , Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture – International Sculpture Center , 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Li
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Malden
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Barbara Rose
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Educated at
- Phillips Academy
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 4. documenta
- Field of work
- graphics
- Movement
- Minimalism
- Image
- Frank Stella portrait (2012).jpg
- Work location
- Princeton
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- Commons category
- Frank Stella
- date of birth
- 1936-05-12
- Commons Creator page
- Frank Stella
- member of
- Royal Academy of Arts
- has works in the collection
- Wallraf–Richartz Museum
- influenced by
- Caravaggio
- ethnic group
- White Americans
- date of death
- 2024-05-04
- name in native language
- Frank Stella
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- lymphoma
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Encyclopedic overview
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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