Frank StellaStati Uniti, 1936–2024Pastel Stack
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, Stati Uniti
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- Verificato
- ieri
- Ultimo cambio di stato
- 25 set 2026
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- I dati di collezione del museo stesso
Sull’opera
Referring to his severe and depersonalized view of art, painter, sculptor, and printmaker Frank Stella once stated, A painting is a flat surface with paint on it, nothing more. Beginning in the 1960s, he embraced the stark geometric abstraction of Minimalism as his primary mode of expression. In paintings, drawings, and prints alike, Stella used form, color, line, and pattern as his fundamental visual vocabulary.
In Pastel Stack, the artist's first screenprint, Stella depicts a stack of rectangles, each penetrated with simple geometric forms, abstract arrangements appropriated from his Polygon series of paintings of 1965-67. Printed in tinted and transparent colors, these forms appear to float over an underlying grid pattern.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- P.70.76
In catalogo
Fonti
- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 5 giorni fa
- Immagine: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Frank Stella
Tutta la vita1960s
Travels in the Middle East
He visits circular-plan cities in the Middle East and is especially intrigued by the arches and decorative patterns he sees in the architecture and art of Iran; these cities will later give their names to works of the Protractor series.
27 giugno 1968 – 6 ottobre 1968
Exhibition: 4. documenta
1969
End of his marriage to Barbara Rose
His marriage to the art historian Barbara Rose, begun in 1961, ends; they had two children, Rachel and Michael.
1970
Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents a retrospective of Stella's work, making him the youngest artist to receive one.
1970
Boycott of the American Pavilion in Venice
Invited to the 35th Venice Biennale, Stella joins a boycott by artists opposed to the US wars in Vietnam and Cambodia and withdraws his works from display at the American Pavilion.
1970s
Introduces relief: “maximalist” painting
He brings relief into his work and calls such painting “maximalist” for its sculptural qualities; in the Eccentric Polygon series the shaped canvases take on still less regular forms and collage elements appear, such as pieces of canvas glued to plywood, and aluminum then becomes the main support of his paintings.
