Frank Stella
Frank Stella
Frank Stellais an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 May 1936
CityMalden, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Frank Stella quotes about
simple color impact
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.
cheerleading gossip-girl love-life
What you see is what you see.
wall gestures abstract-painting
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall
differences black painting
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.
doctors views people
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings
imitating-others painting imitation
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
thrill may technique
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
invention stella type
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.