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Article: Stella style. (Looking & Learning).(Frank Stella)
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- May 1, 2003
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About the Artist
Frank Stella was born in a blue-collar town near Boston, Massachusetts. As a youngster, he was a "wild, street-smart wise guy," but in high school, he became interested in art and painting as well as wrestling and lacrosse. He studied art history at Princeton University and continued painting even though there was no formal studio arts program there.
During one of his frequent trips to New York to visit galleries and museums, Stella saw an exhibition of flag and target paintings by Jasper Johns, and he began to explore the possibilities of painting squares, rectangles, and ragged stripes. Immediately upon graduating in 1958, Stella ...