Frank Stella

Frank Stella was born on the 12th May 1936, he is an american painter and print maker  He uses minimalism and post-paint abstraction in his works. He was born in Massachusetts, after high school he attended Princeton university were he majored in history. He was mostly influenced by visiting galleries in New York. Frank Stella moved to New York in 1958 after he graduated. rank Stella has reinvented himself in consecutive bodies of work over the course of his five-decade career. 

Frank Stella

Since he moved to New York Stella decided not to use paint like all the other abstract artists.He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object, rather than the picture as a representation of something. Frank Stella married Barbara Rose who became an art critic in 1961. At around this time he said that a picture was "a flat surface with paint on it - nothing more". In the 1960's Stella began to use more colours. 

Protractor Series

Protractor Series is one of his paintings were arches are being overlapped and curves and straight lines are being used. These paintings are named after circular places that he had once visited in the middle east. In the mid 1960's Stella started working with printmaking also started working with a master printer, Kenneth Tyler.Stellas abstract prints are made in screen printing, etching and offset lithography. In 1967 he designed a set and costumes for a dance called Scramble. He was named the youngest artist to present a work in the Museum of Art. Later on, Stella started using relief, which he called ''maximalist', his work also became 3-dimensional were he started using free standing metal pieces. These are also considered as sculpture. 

A BMW was designed by Frank Stella as part of an installment for the BMW Art Project in 1976.

BMW Frank Stella designed.

From the 1980's to the mid 1990's, Stella produced a number of works. During this time, Stella’s paintings gave way to full three-dimensional, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, french curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements. To create these works, the artist used collages or Marquette. 

Stella continues to live and work in New York. On June 6, 2008, Stella published an Op-Ed for The Art Newspaper. Also in 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.

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