Modern Mavericks: Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Josef Albers

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Modern Mavericks Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella,
Josef Albers

• GATE Art Academy

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Ellsworth Kelly

• Ellsworth Kelly was born May 31, 1923, in
  Newburgh, New York.
• 1948 The following year, Kelly went to France
  and enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris
  under the G.I. Bill, although he attended classes
  infrequently.
• In France, he discovered Romanesque art and
  architecture and Byzantine art.
• He was also introduced to Surrealism more and
  Neo-Plasticism, which led him to experiment with
  automatic drawing and geometric abstraction

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Ellsworth Kelly
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Frank Stella

• Frank Philip Stella (born May 12, 1936) is an
  American painter and printmaker. He is a
  significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly
  abstraction and offset lithography (a technique
  he devised).
• Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He
  studied painting at the Phillips Academy in
  Andover, Massachusetts and later studied history
  at Princeton University.

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Josef Albers

• Josef Albers (born March 19, 1888 was a German
  artist and educator whose work, both in Europe
  and in the United States, formed the basis of
  some of the most influential and far-reaching art
  education programs of the 20th century.
• Albers studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich
  before enrolling as a student at the prestigious
  Weimar Bauhaus in 1920.
• He began teaching in the preliminary course of
  the Department of Design in 1922, and was
  promoted to Professor in 1925, the year the
  Bauhaus moved to Dessau.
• With the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi
  pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United
  States and joined the faculty of Black Mountain
  College, North Carolina, where he ran the
  painting program until 1949.

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Source

• http//www.artboy.info/P/kelly.html
• http//www.meyersonsymphonycenter.com/EllsworthKel
  ly.cfm
• http//www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/archives/kelly.ht
  ml
• http//www.usembassycanada.gov/content/textonly.as
  p?sectionembconsulsubsection1newembassydocumen
  tartwork-stella