FILE - U.S. artist Frank Stella stands between his collages"Die Marquise von O..." , left, and"Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" at the Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the gallery of the German Federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, Sept. 20, 2001.
At that time many prominent American artists had embraced abstract expressionism, but Stella began exploring minimalism. By age 23 he had created a series of flat, black paintings with gridlike bands and stripes using house paint and exposed canvas that drew widespread critical acclaim. In the late 1970s, Stella began adding three-dimensionality to his visual art, using metals and other mixed media to blur the boundary between painting and sculpture.
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