Frank StellaAn American artistFrank Stella is an American painter who remains poplar after nearly four decades of work. He was born in 1936 and studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts with Patrick Morgan and at Princeton University with William Seitz and Stephen Greene. After 1958 he lived in New York. He established himself in the 1960s as one of the most creative exponents of the new school of post-painterly abstraction, a reaction to abstract expressionism. It was then exhibited widely in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. A retrospective exhibition in 1970 was held under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He began as one of many post-war minimalist painters, but then his work took a different path from others, leading him to a "second career" in abstract expressionism. In this career, he wrestled with problems that had stalled abstract art after Mondrian, and Stella looked back to the 16th century for solutions. Stella was also influenced by the Baroque period, first of all due to parallel situations, but also due to similarities in the creation of space ("Career Concepts: Frank Stella"). Stella's starting point in 1958 for his new approach to abstraction were the flag paintings of Jasper Johns. Using various expedients, Stella emphasized the flatness of the picture model, abolishing the three-dimensional image, and was uncompromising as he refused to allow the introduction of a deep recession behind the picture plane. The result was that the figure-ground relationship was almost completely eliminated as the stripes and orthogonals that made up the image echoed the contours of the format. To reach...... half of the paper...... some points I will cross common experiences. Some of them will stick and become a little specially mine. . . I don't worry about that. I worry about the paintings. . . the drive to make art ("Career Concepts: Frank Stella"). References"Career Concepts: Frank Stella". http://www.columbia.edu/~eem13/trans.html."Frank Stella, Flin Flon XIII, 1970." Kreeger Museum. http://www.kreegermuseum.com/frames/about_us_frame.htm.Lucie-Smith, Edward. Movements in art since 1945. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984. “Minimalism.” http://www.columbia.edu/~eem13/minimalism.html.Osborne, Harold. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Rubin, William S. Frank Stella. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. Rubin, William. Frank Stella 1970-1987. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987.