Whitney Museum of American Art, 13 January - 13 March 1983
Frank Stella
Print - 190 x 132 cm Print - 74.8 x 52 inch
€5,000
The Fossil Whale, State 1 (huge signed etching and aquatint),
1991
Frank Stella
Print : aquatint, etching, carborundum
167.6 x 132.1 x 0.3 cm 66 x 52 x 0.1 inch
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Artwork location: United States
From The Moby Dick Engravings. Etching and aquatint with carborundum and relief on White Wove Handmade TGL paper. Hand signed and dated lower front by Frank Stella. Hand numbered 10/18 lower front (there were also 6 artist's proofs). Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco.
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About the Artist: Frank Stella is an American artist best known for his use of geometric patterns and shapes in creating both paintings and sculptures. Arguably one of the most influential living American artists, Stella's works utilize the formal properties of shape, color, and composition to explore non-literary narratives, as seen in his work Harrar II (1967) from the Protractor series. “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," he explained. “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." Born on May 12, 1936 in Malden, MA, Stella went on to study history at Princeton University before moving to New York in 1958. Having moved to the city, Stella was immersed in the heyday Abstract Expressionism, but it was the work of Jasper Johns that inspired Stella's Black Paintings of 1958-1960. These flatly painted, austere works, helped open up the doors to Minimalism. Through the following decades, Stella gained traction in the art world and in 1970 he became the youngest artist ever to be granted a solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. He continued to work in New York, NY and commuted to his studio in Rock Tavern, New York. Today, Stella's works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London, among others. Frank Stella passed on May 4, 2024.
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Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA, Frank Stella is based in New York. A painter considered the precursor of minimalism, he is one of the main representatives of Op Art and the shaped canvas. After studying art at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then history at Princeton University, he was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Pollock and Kline. It was only later that he would renounce the expressive use of paint and reject the lyricism of this movement. He worked on the oppositions between shapes and colors and is the inventor of “cut-out canvases." This led him to break the boundaries of classical geometry, and his paintings would evolve into true sculptures from the 1980s onward.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1960. There he presented his “Black paintings", already exhibited previously at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City during the exhibition “Sixteen Americans". This work was the culmination of his reflections on object painting and marked his break with abstract expressionism. Frank Stella's compositions are defined by the representation of regular black bands separated by thin white lines: here again the artist studies the opposition between forms and (non) colors and uses painting as an end and not as a means of expression or representation. Indeed, as Carl Andre, minimalist painter and sculptor, put it, “For Frank Stella, it proved necessary to paint bands. There is nothing else in his painting. Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessities of painting. Its stripes are the paths the brush takes on the canvas. These paths lead only to painting.
This exhibition marks the starting point of the minimalism movement.
Frank Stella developed the concept of "cut-out canvases," the outline merging with the geometric shapes represented. He plays with colors. White, black, multicolored, the artist uses different supports, from aluminum to copper, even steel. His compositions are generally series. From the mid-1970s, he took a turn in his artistic approach as he began to work in relief, and was influenced by the Baroque movement.
Since the 1980s, Stella has been interested in sculpture and creates it almost exclusively.
Numerous exhibitions have been dedicated to him; he is one of the few artists to have been able to attend his own retrospective during his lifetime. Indeed, in 1970 and ten years later, exhibitions were dedicated to him at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. His sculpture "The Prince of Hamburg" was installed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2001. A retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York, USA, was dedicated to him in 2015.
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