Frank Stella

Also known as Sakauil, Frank Philip Stella

American painter and printmaker (1936–2024)

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Works: 44

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Type: Person
Country: NL
Active from: 1935-09-21
Active to: 2022-01-01

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Total plays: 22

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Quotes

“Only what can be seen there [in the painting] is there.. .What you see is what you see.”
“My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object and anyone who gets involved enough in this finally has to face up to the objectness of whatever it is that he's doing. He is making a thing.. ..all I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion.. .What you see is what you see.”
“We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.”
“If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about.”
“I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object.”
“The idea in being a painter is to declare an identity. Not just my identity, an identity for me, but an identity big enough for everyone to share in. Isn't that what it's all 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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Image: Frank Stella portrait (2012).jpg

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Commons category: Frank Stella
date of birth: 1936-05-12
Commons Creator page: Frank Stella
date of death: 2024-05-04
name in native language: Frank Stella

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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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