Description: (Painter, Sculptor)
Frank Stella was a significant American artist known for his impact on minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He began his career in New York City in the late 1950s, focusing on the picture-as-object concept. Inspired by abstract expressionists like Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock, Stella developed a reductionist approach, emphasizing the flat surface with paint in his works. He gained recognition for his black pinstripe paintings at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959. Throughout his career, Stella received prestigious awards such as the National Medal of Arts and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture.