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Franck Stella
"Colour has its own pictorial substance."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Notes of biography
Frank Stella is born in Malden, Massachusetts (US) in 1936. He studies art at the Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and at Princeton University. In 1950, Stella rejects the lyricism of abstract expressionists. He moves to New York and becomes friends with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and with the architects Richard Meier and Philip Johnson.
His first solo exhibition, where he presents the “Black Paintings”, will be mounted in 1960. This work had been displayed the previous year by the Museum of Modern Art within the framework of the exhibition “Sixteen Americans”. The artist works in large format and in series. He invents “shaped canvases”, where the physical edge of the canvas coincides with the exterior limits of the picture plane; they are black, white or multicoloured.
Until 1975, Stella leads the American avant-garde towards Mimimalism, concentrating on the relationships between colour and form, always working in series. From 1975 onwards, his work breaks free, and the painter then creates compositions in relief, “baroque” works in which he intertwines a multitude of cut-out forms and adds arabesques in harsh, acidic colours. Once again, he works in series (“Exotic Birds”, “Fragments”, “Waves”, etc.).
In the 1980’s and thereafter, Frank Stella creates monumental sculptures in steel that has been polished or burned. Stella develops a keen interest in the drawings of the 1920’s Bauhaus, and his work is influenced by this. The artist is, along with Josef Albers, one of the principal representatives of Op Art. Frank Stella is also one of the rare artists to have seen two retrospectives of his work organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1970 and 1987). In 2001, a monumental sculpture (“The Prince of Homburg’) is installed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Frank Stella lives and works in New York.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
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Complete work(s)
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*« The prints of Frank Stella », R.H. Axsom, Ed. Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1983
*« Frank Stella : paintings 1958 to 1965 », L. Rubin, S. Tabori & Chang Publishers, New York, 1986
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To read about the artist :
- « Frank Stella », cat. d'expo. Ed. CAPC Bordeaux, 1980
- « Frank Stella », W. Rubin, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1987
- « Frank Stella », A. Pacquement, Ed. Flammarion, 1988
- « Frank Stella », Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1988
- « Frank Stella », A. Pacquement, Ed. Flammarion, 1999
- « Frank Stella », A. Arbor University of Michigan Press, 2000
- « Frank Stella : Retrospective », collectif, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Ed. Hatje Cantz, 2012
- « Frank Stella : A Retrospective », M. Auping et autres, Ed. Yale University Press, 2015
- « La chapelle Stella », P. Bourrier et autres, Ed. Bernard Chauveau, 2016
- « Frank Stella », A. Campbell, Kate Nesin, Phaidon Press Ltd ., 2018
To read from the artist :
- « Had Gadya » interview par Edna Moshenson, The Tel Aviv Museum, 1986
- « Frank Stella…», in video : Anderson Ranch Arts center & Blouin ArtInfo, 2015
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Stamp by Franck Stella
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Art movements
+ OPTICAL ART / 1955-1968 / Nicolas Schöffer (cybernetic art), Larry Poons, Bridget Riley, etc.
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