Frank Stella, who died on Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret.
Stella, it can safely be said, was not a fashion plate.
To the end of his life, he had the aura of a nervous whiz kid with oversize glasses and frizzy hair.
Despite their portentous titles (“Die Fahne hoch!” for instance, or “The Marriage of Reason and Squalor II”), the paintings reference nothing outside themselves.
“What you see is what you see,” Stella declared, providing the Minimalist movement with a pithy and enduring slogan.
Persons:
Frank Stella, Stella, ”, hoch, ” Stella
Locations:
East, New York