Frank Stella  

"... Frank Stella's fearless panache, linked to the profusion of his output, that most publicly resisted the common idea that abstract painting was played out. From the Fascist lugubriousness of early striped paintings like Die Fahne Hoch or Valle de los caidos to the galvanic dance of fake-shadowed solids in the Cones and Pillars series of the eighties, Stella wrung more variety from abstract art than anyone else alive. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started bare, but complicated his art to the point of apoplexy."--The Shock of the New (1980) by Robert Hughes, the book

"At the opposite pole of feeling there were Frank Stella's paintings from the 70s filled with a sort of maniacal decorative punch glitter scribbling congestion big French curves swinging out of the design like the feathers of some tropical bird. The sheer energy of this kind of work belies the idea much talked about recently that abstract painting as such is a dying form."--The Shock of the New (1980) by Robert Hughes, the television series