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Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules
Hardcover
General ArtIndividual ArtistsPainting Instruction
Publisher Price: $39.95
Publisher: Marsilio Arte
Published: Dec 24 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 3.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.60 Depth: 11.60
Language: English
A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstraction
Celebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler played a pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. Active for more than six decades, Frankenthaler emerged on the American art scene with a no-rules approach to painting, protean imagination and improvisational skills that reshaped the narrative not only for women artists but for the genre itself. With her innovative soak-stain technique, Frankenthaler explored a new relationship between color and form, expanding the potential of abstract painting in ways that continue to inspire artists today. Working with color, space, abstraction and poetry, Frankenthaler distinguished herself through her unique ability to combine technique, imagination, research and improvisation, expanding her practice beyond established canons in the pursuit of a new freedom in painting.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was born in New York. She studied art under Rufino Tamayo, Paul Feeley and Hans Hofmann. Her first critical success was with Mountains and Sea (1952), which was emblematic of her soak-stain technique in which paint was absorbed directly into the canvas. She was included in Clement Greenberg's landmark 1964 exhibition Post-Painterly Abstraction. The term Color Field painting was first coined to describe her work.
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