His work Hacilar Level III, 2000, is a painting on a textured surface that Stella cast from molten aluminum. By the late 1980s, his paintings became fully three-dimensional and could be considered “maximalist” in stark contrast to the “minimalist” paintings of his early career.

Stella also shaped his canvases and constructed his paintings into three-dimensional structures using an array of materials, including metal, wood, and plastic. With these minimal paintings he aimed to eliminate pictorial illusion so that the image appeared as flat as the canvas on which he painted. He used abstract expressionistic brushstrokes in his earliest paintings, but by late 1958 he changed his technique to paint flat black stripes in an all over pattern. Stella has stated that artists are faced with two questions: “What to paint” and “How to paint it.” Although he decided to paint abstractly from the beginning, he has chosen to paint in a variety of ways over the years. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. See more ideas about shape collage, art lessons, art projects. Explore Melissa Cocks board 'Shape collage' on Pinterest. After graduating from Princeton University in 1958 with a degree in history, he moved to New York to pursue an art career. See more ideas about shape collage, art lessons, art projects. Before they began the project we looked at examples of abstract art. The students were given pre-cut paper triangles, circles and squares which they used to create abstract geometric designs. In this class our focus was geometric shapes.

Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1936. After learning about color and line we moved on to shape.

Line and shape collage