“No, because you are a good sculptor now.”
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Frank Stella
Frank Philip Stella 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…
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culture · American artist (1936–2024) · painter · sculptor · engraver · designer · photographer · printmaker · installation artist · jewelry designer · visual artist · graphic artist · also Frank Stella, Sakauil, Frank Philip Stella, Stella
Born 12 May 1936 · Died 4 May 2024 · Q375268
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2026· 4 entries
“If you follow the edges of the lines, there”
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“a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more”
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Yahoo: MOCA Jacksonville installs soaring outdoor sculpture by Frank Stella
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2024· 4 entries
archpaper: Frank Stella, an artist who brought painting into architecture, dies at 87
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San Diego Union-Tribune: Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87
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Died 2024-05-04.
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“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.”
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2020· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Little-Known Story of a Frank Stella Work Once Mistaken for a Lunch Table
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2019· 1 entry
And writing for the New York Times Style Magazine, described it as a "hangar-like structure", its entrance marked by a piece of wood spray-painted with the name "Stella"
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2015· 3 entries
Hyperallergic: Something Worth Arguing About: Frank Stella Fills the Whitney
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Whitney Museum of American Art co-organized Frank Stella: A Retrospective
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Art critic Jerry Saltz reminded viewers that Stella had declared "I don't make Conceptual Art
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2014· 1 entry
Stella gave his sculpture Adjoeman (2004) as a long-term loan to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
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2012· 1 entry
A retrospective of Stella's career was shown at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
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2011· 1 entry
Received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center
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2009· 2 entries
Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama
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And the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center in 2011
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2008· 1 entry
Stella, a member artist of the Artists Rights Society published with ARS president Theodore Feder an op-ed for The Art Newspaper decrying a proposed U
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2006· 2 entries
From the collection of Belgian art patrons Roger and Josette Vanthournout at Sotheby's
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Consists of eight works by Stella from his Scarlatti Kirkpatrick polychrome sculpture series, for which he used a 3-D printer to create the metal and resin segments
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2000).
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1997· 1 entry
Oversaw the installation of the 5,000-square-foot Euphonia at the Moores Opera House at the Rebecca and John J
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1996· 1 entry
Received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Jena in Jena, Germany, where his large sculptures of the Hudson River Valley series are on permanent display, becoming the second artist to receive this honorary d
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1993· 1 entry
Designed and executed for Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre a 10,000-square-foot mural installation which covers the ceiling of the dome, the proscenium arch and the exterior rear wall of the building
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1987· 1 entry
By Susan Orleans of The New Yorker, he quipped, "In art, you can keep getting better, but in squash you hit your level and that's just about it
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1986· 1 entry
Told Nicholas Dawidoff, a writer for Sports Illustrated: "The advantage of squash is that I can forget about painting
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1984· 1 entry
Calling for a rejuvenation of abstraction by achieving the depth of baroque painting
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1978· 1 entry
The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1987, and the Jewish Museum in New York in 1983
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1976· 1 entry
Stella was commissioned by BMW to paint a BMW 3
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1970· 1 entry
Making him the youngest artist to receive one
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1969· 2 entries
Rose began to reconsider her relationship with minimalism, and became a champion of less well-recognized painters
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Stella was commissioned to create a logo for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial
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1967· 1 entry
Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by Merce Cunningham
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1966· 2 entries
Into more elaborate designs, as in the Irregular Polygon series (67)
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“What you see is what you see.”
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1961· 1 entry
Stella followed Barbara Rose, later a well-known art critic, to Pamplona, Spain, where she had gone on a Fulbright fellowship; they married in London that November
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1959· 2 entries
When his four black pinstripe paintings were shown at the Museum of Modern Art
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When his four black pinstripe paintings were shown in the Sixteen Americans exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, along with works by Louise Nevelson, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg
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1953· 1 entry
Produced the authoritative scholarly catalogue of the sonatas
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-05-12.
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To first-generation Italian-American parents, as the oldest of their three children
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