Frank Stella Essay

Frank Stella’s remarkable retrospective has taken over the largest exhibition floor of the new Whitney Museum of American Art. There has not been an exhibition in a New York museum in close to three decades. This exhibition provides an update on the artist who has stubbornly done his art master pieces the way he wants them to be. It is also some sort of inauguration of the Whitney’s district building because the old uptown address did not permit the exhibition before. Stella has painted since he was a teenager, so watching this exhibition would mean that more than 50 years of art work will be displayed. The exhibition, “Frank Stella: A Retrospective,” will have its big opening this Friday. It will look over the 60 year journey through painting of Frank, and his 70 large artworks accompanied by drawings, prints, photographs and studies. This exhibition starts from his days at the peak of the New York art world as a Minimalist prodigy, when he developed his skills of abstract painting, through his mischief years as Minimalism’s most prominent renegade. Mr. Stella began by painting himself without any expectations and he …show more content…
He is known because he worked closely with Stella, so he knows a lot about him. Their inspired idea was to make the presentation chronological, but with the chance of jumping around in time, just to have the chance to place pieces up to 20 years apart to create stimulating clashes of color, form and process. Also, they wanted to contrast the ideas and meanings of the art pieces, just to give the audience a more general idea of what the criticism for the art pieces is all about. People familiar with Frank’s history should be able to understand this presentation because they already know Stella’s background, first time viewers, however, may get confused and feel lost with the