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Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting.
Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
In 1954, art critic Clement Greenberg introduced Morris Louis to painter Helen Frankenthaler, who was working in as a, "proto–color field painter". [3] Her painting, Mountains and Sea (1952) had an impact on Louis and many other painters in Washington, D.C., and they borrowed Frankenthaler's process of staining raw canvas with color.
An important distinction that made color field painting different from abstract expression was the paint handling. The most basic fundamental defining technique of painting is application of paint and the color field painters revolutionized the way paint could be effectively applied. Color field painting sought to rid art of superfluous rhetoric.
Andrew Nemerov's 'Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York' charts the rise of an Abstract Expressionist painter knocked for her privilege.
It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning , Jasper Johns , Andy Warhol , Robert Rauschenberg , Helen Frankenthaler , Frank Stella , Barnett Newman , Hans Hofmann , Jules Olitski , Philip Pavia , Larry Poons ...
Sunset Corner is a 1969 acrylic painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler. [1] The University of Michigan Museum of Art purchased it in 1973. [1]In 2018, it was loaned to the Williams College Museum of Art for an exhibition called "Topographies of Color."
[12] In 2018, author Mary Gabriel published a collective biography of them, their work and their underacknowledged contributions to American art in the acclaimed Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art. [4]