Frank Stella, who died at the age of 87, is considered a reformer of minimalism.
The abstract an American visual artist known as an art reformer Frank Stella is dead, reported the US media.
Stella died at the age of 87 at her home in Manhattan from lymph node cancer, said The New York Times.
Stella is considered to be a reformer of minimalism, who focused on form and surface instead of expressive elements in her art. He broke through on his own at the age of 25 Black Paintings -painting series. Stella’s career spanned more than six decades.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited an extensive retrospective describing Stella’s work twice, in 1970 and 1987.
Stella’s work has also been exhibited in Finland, for example at the Sara Hildén Art Museum in Tampere.
In 2009, Stella’s Ctesiphon I was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
BMW painted by Frank Stella in the Emma museum in Espoo in 2012.
The work from Stella’s Concentric Squares series is currently on sale at Christie’s auction in New York. The price is estimated to be 6-8 million dollars.
Frank Stella’s sculpture called Inflated Star and Wooden Star was exhibited in the grounds of the Royal Academy in London in 2015.