Frank Stella; What you see is what you get

'In his early work, Stella attempted to drain any external meaning or symbolism from painting, reducing his images to geometric form and eliminating illusionistic effects. His goal was to make paintings in which pictorial force came from materiality, not from symbolic meaning. He famously quipped, “What you see is what you see,” a statement that became the unofficial credo of Minimalist practice. In the 1980s and '90s, Stella turned away from Minimalism, adopting a more additive approach for a series of twisting, monumental, polychromatic metal wall reliefs and sculptures based on Herman Melville’sMoby Dick.' (Arty.net)

East Euralia, from Imaginary Places, 1995

Lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, relief and embossing in colors, on TGL handmade paper (Left)

Riallaro, 1995

Screenprint, lithograph, etching, relief, aquatint, collagraph on white TGL handmade paper (Right)

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