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Frank Stella
American artist, master of post-painterly abstraction Date of Birth: 12.05.1936 Country: USA |
Biography of Frank Stella
Frank Stella, an American artist and master of post-painterly abstraction, was born on May 12, 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts.
He grew up in a family of a gynecologist and began his artistic journey by studying painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts from 1950 to 1954.
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Stella then pursued history at Princeton University from 1954 to 1958.
After completing his studies, Stella primarily lived in New York City where he initially worked as a draftsman and designer to support himself.
It was during the late 1950s that Stella's distinct style started to take shape, particularly in his series of "black paintings." These works featured surfaces filled with black stripes separated by narrow white intervals. In this period, Stella focused on the exploration of pure visuality, experimenting with the arrangement of these strip