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Parents Cheat Sheet
(Fun facts to have at your finger tips!)
Frank Stella
• Is one of the most well-regarded postwar
American artists still working today.
• He became famous for his black line
paintings.
• He was born in1936 in Malden,
Massachusetts, USA
• In 1958 he moved to NYC to study and be
part of the art scene.
• His art is involved with modernism, minimal
art, abstract expressionism, geometric
abstraction and abstract illusionism!
• He has been most influenced by Jackson
Pollock, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Hans
Hofmann and Caravaggio
• He went on to play with color and form by
cutting up the canvas into shapes and playing
with color.
• He then moved into 3 dimensional collages
of paint, wood, metal, printed works and
mesh.
• These works grew more and became more
like sculptures, but they are still called
paintings because he always attaches them to
the wall.
• He likes to create abstract work– with no
images, illusion, metaphors or other
references.
• Now 80, he is using 3D printers and other
new technologies to create new works that
are inspired by organic forms like the space
left in the air after a puff of smoke dissolves!
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