Frank Stella is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction, but it is for his work at the beginning of the 1960s that catapulted him to international acclaim. Upon moving to New York City in the later 1950s he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the “flatter” surfaces of Barnett Newman’s work, and the target paintings by Jasper Johns. Around this time he said that a picture was “a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more”. From 1960 Stella began to produce paintings in aluminium and copper paint which were his first works using shaped canvases, often being in L, N, U or T-shapes.
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