In 1976, Stella was commissioned by BMW to paint a BMW 3.0 CSL for the second installment in the BMW Art Car Project. After introducing wood and other materials in the Polish Village series (1973), his Minimalism became baroque. ĭuring the following decade, Stella introduced relief, which he came to call "maximalist" painting for its sculptural qualities. The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella's work in 1970, making him the youngest artist to receive one. In 1967, Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by Merce Cunningham. Later he began his Protractor Series (71) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders named after circular cities he had visited while in the Middle East earlier in the 1960s. įrom 1960 his works used shaped canvases later developing into more elaborate designs, in the Irregular Polygon series (67), for example. In 1959, several of his paintings were included in "Three Young Americans" at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, as well as in "Sixteen Americans" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1960). ĭie Fahne Hoch! (1959) takes its name ("The Raised Banner" in English) from the first line of the Horst-Wessel-Lied, the anthem of the National Socialist German Workers Party, and Stella pointed out that it is in the same proportions as banners used by that organization. Around this time he said that a picture was "a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more". Stella married Barbara Rose, later a well-known art critic, in 1961. Upon moving to New York City, he began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object. Jasper's Dilemma (1962-1963) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022 As of 2015, Stella lived in Greenwich Village and kept an office there but commuted on weekdays to his studio in Rock Tavern, New York. ![]() In the 1970s he moved into NoHo in Manhattan in New York City. ![]() He is heralded for creating abstract paintings that bear no pictorial illusions or psychological or metaphysical references in twentieth-century painting. His work was influenced by the abstract expressionism. Īfter attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University. His father was a gynecologist, and his mother was a housewife and artist who attended fashion school and later took up landscape painting. Stella lives and works in New York City.įrank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts. Modernism, minimal art, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, lyrical abstraction, hard-edge painting, shaped canvas painting, color field paintingġ984 Harvard University Charles Eliot Norton lecturesįrank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
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