Preface to Stripe Painting (Frank Stella)
“Art excludes the unnecessary. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes.
There is nothing else in his painting.
Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessities of painting.
Symbols are counters passed among people. Frank Stella’s painting is not symbolic. His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These paths lead only into painting.“
Carl Andre from 16 Americans[ Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959]
