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Dec 29, 2011 · Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) Washington, DC—"Helen made groundbreaking contributions to the development of modern art in the United States. Pouring and brushing paint onto large swaths of canvas, she achieved an expansive lyricism that inspired many artists and yet remained uniquely her own. Her masterpiece, Mountains and Sea, has long ...
Aug 29, 2019 · Helen Frankenthaler in her studio “in the woods” in Provincetown, 1968. Working on the floor, she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas, a technique that established the ...
Helen Frankenthaler. (Nueva York, 1928 - Darien, Connecticut, 2011) Pintora estadounidense cuya obra desempeñó un papel determinante en la evolución del expresionismo abstracto. Hija de Marta Lowenstein, emigrada desde Alemania, y de Alfred Frankenthaler, juez del Tribunal Supremo del Estado de Nueva York, Helen Frankenthaler nació en el ...
When Helen Frankenthaler painted The Bay, she was already a well-regarded artist. She’d been the subject of a LIFE Magazine profile in 1956 and was one of the handful of women among the traditional all-boys’ club of the New York Abstract Expressionists. The Bay was chosen as one of the paintings for the American pavilion of the 1966 Venice ...
May 22, 2021 · Helen Frankenthaler’s most recognized contribution to painting is the “soak-stain” technique, whereby thinned paint is applied to unprimed canvas, resulting in the organic, flowing fields of color which define her mature work. Initially, Helen Frankenthaler used oil paint cut with turpentine.
