El pintor estadounidense Frank Stella, quien se convirtió en una figura prominente del arte de la posguerra de su país, especialmente con sus primeras obras minimalistas, murió a los 87 años, informaron el sábado los medios.
El pintor nacido en Malden, Massachusetts, inició su carrera haciendo pinturas sobrias, algunas con poco color y sin pretensiones de brindar un estímulo visual, lo que contrastaba con el expresionismo abstracto de la época.
Sus primeros trabajos incluyeron una serie de pinturas con la técnica “pinstriping” (obras de gran formato con líneas negras finas sobre lienzos blancos) que causaron furor dentro del mundo del arte estadounidense.
A person looks at Frank Stella 's "Gray Scramble IX (Single)" during a press preview on November 1, 2019, for the Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on November 13. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION | Foto: AFP or licensors
Antes de cumplir los 25 años ya era reconocido como uno de los grandes artistas estadounidenses, y continuó su carrera durante seis décadas.
Stella exploró luego el color y la forma, y ocasionalmente pintó figuras irregulares con motivos geométricos.
A visitor looks at Sinjerli Variations I-V, by American painter Frank Stella in 1977, during the "Minimalism and Conceptual Art" exhibition, which showcases works from the 19th and 20th-centuries by American and European artists, at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in the Iranian capital on August 22, 2022. More than 20,000 people have flocked to an Iranian museum showcasing dozens of renowned Western artists' works, some for the first time -- part of a treasure trove amassed before the Islamic Revolution. The museum's collection is reputed to be the greatest line-up of modern masterpieces outside Europe and the United States, and includes multi-million-dollar pieces, much of which has been kept under wraps since the 1979 revolution.The current "Minimalism and Conceptual Art" exhibition features 132 works by 34 world-famous contemporary artists, museum director Ebadreza Eslami said, including Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and the duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION | Foto: AFP or licensors
El Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York ofreció retrospectivas de su obra en 1970 y de nuevo en 1987.
A person looks at Frank Stella's "Untitled" during a press preview at Sotheby's October 23, 2020 for the upcoming Sotheby�s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on October 28, in New York City. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION | Foto: AFP or licensors
