Frank StellaAn American artistFrank Stella is an American painter who remains poplar after nearly four decades of work. He was born in 1936 and studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, under Patrick Morgan, and at Princeton University, under William Seitz and Stephen Greene. After 1958 he lived in New York. He became known in the 1960s as one of the most inventive of the new school of post-painterly abstraction, a reaction against abstract expressionism. It was subsequently exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. A retrospective exhibition was held in 1970 under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He began as one of several post-war minimalist painters, but his work later took a different path from others, leading him to a "second career" in abstract expressionism. During this career he grappled with problems that had crippled abstract art after Mondrian, and Stella looked to the 16th century for solutions. Stella was also influenced by the Baroque period, firstly due to parallel situations, but also due to similarities in the creation of space ("Career Concepts: Frank Stella"). Stella's starting point in 1958 for her new approach to abstraction was the flag paintings of Jasper Johns. With the help of various devices, Stella emphasized the flatness of the painting's pattern, abolishing the three-dimensional image, and he was uncompromising in refusing to allow the introduction of a deep recession behind the plane of the painting. picture. The result was that the figure-ground relationship was almost completely eliminated since the stripes and orthogonals constituting the image echoed the contours of the format. To achieve...... middle of paper...... some points that I will cross common experiences. Some of them will stay and become a little uniquely mine. . . I don't worry about that. I'm worried about the paintings. . . the desire to make art (“Career Concepts: Frank Stella”). References “Career Concepts: Frank Stella”. ^ "Frank Stella, Flin Flon XIII, 1970." Kreeger Museum. http://www.kreegermuseum.com/frames/about_us_frame.htm.Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art movements since 1945. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984. “Minimalism.” http://www.columbia.edu/~eem13/minimalism.html.Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Rubin, William S. Frank Stella. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.Rubin, William. Frank Stella 1970-1987. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987.