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These paintings were extraordinary for several reasons. They reduced Stella??s role as a painter to the absolute minimum of applying black paint to an empty canvas—the white “lines” were actually thin strips of bare canvas showing through the gaps between stripes of black paint. Furthermore, the geometric pattern of lines—dubbed “deductive structure” by critics—was derived from the rectangle of the canvas, a frank acknowledgement of materiality directly opposed to traditional painting...
Ironically, these painterly qualities were probably the least original dimensions of Stella??s 1958 work. They were the main link between his painting and the abstract expressionism that immediately preceded it, and presumably it was Stella??s desire for true originality that let him to the reductive rigidity of the black paintings...
...American Summer” and your stage show “Stella?? gave you crazy cult status. Are you happy with that or do you want to have a more mainstream presence...
...Stella?? started out as a stage show, and now it’s on Comedy Central. How do you explain the success of the group...
...Next for me is to write another feature and hopefully direct it in the year. And hopefully, make a second season of “Stella?? in the winter...