![]() ![]() "We are in the 21st century and there is just more tolerance in the air. The trans-models' newfound prominence also points to a seismic shift in Brazilian society, which has seen macho, homophobic attitudes soften in recent years as gays win more legal rights. Though they emerged onto the scene here just around two years ago, Brazil's so-called trans-models have already added a pinch of exoticism to the country's showcase modeling sector - long dominated by blonde women such as Brazilian uber-model Gisele Bundchen. Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly.The 6-foot-tall Tavares is among Brazil's small but growing ranks of transgender models - leggy, high-cheekbone sirens who were born men and are causing a splash here as well as in Paris and other international fashion capitals. A key figure in post-war American art, Frank Stella was one of the progenitors of Minimalism and is today considered one of America’s greatest living artists. Stella was born in 1936 and grew up in a suburb of Boston. ![]() ![]() In 1954, he began studying history at Princeton University, where he took night classes in painting and drawing. Four years later, he moved to New York to pursue a career as an artist, sharing a studio with Carl Andre, with whom he was a close friend. Frank Stella (Malden, Massachusetts, 1936) breaks into the New York art scene at the same time the second generation of Abstract Expressionism begins to be. Inspired by Jasper Johns’ work, Stella began exploring the nature of painting using household enamel paint, he applied roughly painted monochrome stripes on canvases. Just a year later, aged just 23, Stella made a major breakthrough in his art, gaining critical acclaim and wide scale recognition for his radical Black Paintings. Offering a new form of entirely abstract painting that stood in diametric opposition to the prevailing tendency of Abstract Expressionism, these works caught the attention of Leo Castelli, who asked him to join his eponymous gallery. ![]() In December 1959, four of his Black Paintings were included in the seminal exhibition, ‘Sixteen Americans,’ at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.įrom the 1960s onward, Stella embarked on a prolific period of creativity, producing series after series of unprecedented paintings. He experimented with shaped canvases – creating the Aluminum Paintings (1960), Irregular Polygon canvases (1965-67) and the Protractor series (1967-71), as well as expanding his initial monochrome palette to bright colors. Later, he incorporated sculptural relief into his work, calling himself a ‘maximalist’ painter, before creating large-scale freestanding sculptures, architectural structures, and complexly rendered prints. One of the most highly regarded post-war American painters still working today, Stella’s style has constantly evolved. Stella’s work was included in several important exhibitions that defined 1960s art, among them the Guggenheim Museum’s ‘The Shaped Canvas’ (1965) and ‘Systemic Painting’ (1966). The controlled minimalism of his works in the late 1950s and early ’60s gave way to maximalist riots of colour later in his career with subsequent works surpassing 2D canvas to become sculptural. In 1970, the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented a retrospective of Stella’s work, making him the youngest artist ever to be recognized in this way. Today his work is held in museum collections around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Solomon R. ![]()
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