1. Frank Stella -
... the shape of the canvas as the essential fact of the picture. He carefully plotted out every square inch of pictorial space in patterns of even stripes reiterating the simple perpendicular and parallel relationships of the frame. No forms overlapped and none seemed secondary. Instead, the entirety of the rectangular field was recognized as being of one importance, minimized in complexity ... , for it deviated from traditional rectangularity in favor of symmetrically placed notches. This innovation both created and reflected the internal geometries of stripes that now ran only parallel, a...
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