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Article: "Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture"; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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"GIVEN THE FINE ARTS, architecture, painting, and sculpture, I feel caught in the middle," Frank Stella said recently. For anyone with a passing knowledge of the work he has made over the course of the past fifty years, the statement is hardly surprising; for anyone who has kept up in the past fifteen, neither is the comment that followed: "Now I can't stop thinking about architecture." The oddity comes with what Stella said next: "I can only blame the pursuit of abstraction."
It may seem a little unfair, in order to decipher this last remark, to begin years ago and worlds away, with the "Black Paintings." Has any other artist's early work ever so thoroughly ...