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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.
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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.
In 1952 Frankenthaler created Mountains and Sea, a breakthrough painting of American abstraction for which she poured thinned paint directly onto raw, unprimed canvas laid on the studio floor, working from all sides to create floating fields of translucent color.
Helen Frankenthaler's works helped redefine painting. From the Renaissance on, a painting was considered a window onto the world, through which one saw an illusion of reality.
Dec 20, 2023 · Next Slide. Previous Slide. Helen Frankenthaler, Painted on 21st Street, 1950. Oil, sand, plaster of Paris, and coffee grounds on sized, primed canvas, 69 ⅛ × 97 inches (175.6 × 246.4 cm), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Mar 12, 2021 · Helen Frankenthaler’s Liberated Abstractions Charted a New Path for Painting. By Alex Greenberger. March 12, 2021 10:03am. Helen Frankenthaler, Before the Caves, 1958. ©2020 Helen...
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