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Cy Twombly

Frank Stella

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly was an American painter, sculptor, and photographer who developed a highly personal visual language combining gestural mark-making, calligraphic scrawls, and classical literary references to create works of dreamlike ambiguity. His large canvases—smeared, scratched, and annotated with words, numbers, and looping lines—occupy a singular position between Abstract Expressionism and conceptual art. He spent much of his life in Italy, where he drew on Mediterranean mythology and history to infuse his work with a sense of ancient time.

BornApril 25, 1928NationalityAmerican

Frank Stella

Frank Stella

Frank Stella was a pioneering American minimalist and abstract painter who rose to prominence in the late 1950s with his Black Paintings, which rejected the expressive gestures of Abstract Expressionism in favor of precise geometric stripes. He expanded his practice over decades into shaped canvases, reliefs, and large-scale public sculptures that blended painting and three-dimensional form. His declaration "What you see is what you see" became a defining statement of Minimalism.

BornMay 12, 1936NationalityAmerican

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