Frank Stella — American Artist born on May 12, 1936,

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella continues to live and work in New York... (wikipedia)

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
What you see is what you see.