Frank Stella in his artist quotes on abstract painting - free resource, American art history

Frank Stella in his quotes - the American artist on painting, print art Minimalism and life in the U.S. - free resource for pupils, students and teachers in American art history

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Frank Stella’s artist quotes reveal his objections against the emotional, wild gesture-painting of the Abstract-Expressionist artists in the U.S. Stella was an American painter of the 1960’s and tried to find expressions as simple as possible. He was searching for new art with less emotional & individualistic struggle and without existential pain… .Later his paintings and sculptures became much more complex.

In early 1960’s Stella preferred for his large size paintings copper and aluminum paint. He frequently painted in regular lines of color separated by pinstripes. A close friend of Frank Stella was the famous American sculptor Carl Andre. They exchanged a lot of ideas on Minimal Art in the 1960’s, in the U.S…
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Some selected quotes of American artist Frank Stella - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Only what can be seen there (in the painting) is there… .What you see is what you see.’ - Frank Stella’s quote: from an interview in 1964; as quoted in: ‘The Re-Definition of Art’, Harold Rosenberg (1972) p. 125

• ’I wanted something that was direct - right to you eye … …something you didn’t have to look around - you got the whole thing right away. - quote from: ‘Frank Stella’, William S. Rubin; Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S., 1970, p. 30

• ’The aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.’ - Stella’s quote, cited by Alan D. Bryce (2007), in ‘Art Smart: The Intelligent Guide to Investing…’, p. 55
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  selection of free art-resources on American artist Frank Stella:

  • biographical notes on Frank Stella, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stella
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Stella, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Stella
  • images of the painting art of Frank Stella, Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Frank Stella
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek (= FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]