Frank Philip Stella is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his use of geometric patterns and shapes in creating both paintings and sculptures in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction.
Frank Stella’s Black Painting Series completed between 1958 and 1960, started a new wave of minimalism with each lithograph featuring a pattern of rectilinear stripes of uniform width printed in metallic black ink on buff-tinted paper.
“What you see is what you see” became the Mantra of the Minimalist Art movement when these Black paintings of Frank Stella paved way for Minimalism in 1960. It was Stella’s Black Paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, that began to turn away from the gestural art of the previous generation.
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