Lincoln Center Festival

About The Artist: Frank Stella

Frank Stella was born in Maiden, Massachusetts, studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Princeton University. Upon moving to New York City, he reacted against the expressive use of paint by most painters of the abstract expressionist movement, instead finding himself drawn towards the "flatter" surfaces of Barnett Newman's work and the "target" paintings of Jasper Johns. He began to produce works which emphasized the picture-as-object,...