Remembering Frank Stella, one of the leading abstract artists of his generation

When you start looking at what you're looking at, you can go anywhere... Stella took close looking to so many places... remade Supremacist shapes into hard-edged abstractions... sculptor of tactile and architectonic works.

Stella leaves behind a remarkable body of work that 'live on as a residual pressure... in the minds of anyone who has cared or will care about art' of the past half-century.

Stella, with his bookish demeanour, charming disposition, and love for all things fast... was always an outsider who insiders clamoured to invite in... one of the best-loved of American abstraction.

Stella was part of a new generation of abstract artists, university-educated and fashionable... known for their intellect, rather than the struggles of the Abstract Expressionists.

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