Blue Atmosphere, 1963, 5'10"x9'
Helen Frankenthaler is an American-born painter, printmaker, and sculptor who, along with fellow artists Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, spearheaded the practice of Color Field painting, a component of Abstract Expressionism. Her innovative technique, along with her use of landscape to inform her abstract work, changed the way artists conceived of and used color in their own work and made her the most prominent female member of the Abstract Expressionist and Color Field Painting movements.After seeing Jackson Pollock work with his canvas on the floor, she adopted the technique herself.
Unlike most artists who cover the canvas beneath their paints, Frankenthaler uses the canvas as a medium. She is known to have 'invented' a style now called color-field art by deliberately using that technique to create huge paintings. Her bright paintings are dramatic and abstract rather than realistic.
The technique of staining canvases with poured paint involves, necessarily, a great amount of risk, as there is no chance for correction. If a painting failed somewhere along the way, she rejected it. But when successful her paintings became harmonious blends of motion and color.
The technique of staining canvases with poured paint involves, necessarily, a great amount of risk, as there is no chance for correction. If a painting failed somewhere along the way, she rejected it. But when successful her paintings became harmonious blends of motion and color.
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| helen frankenthaler | gulf stream | 1963 | oil and acrylic on canvas | 86x65 inches |
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| Interior Landscape, 1964 Acrylic on canvas 104 ¾ x 92 ¾ inches 266 x 236 cm |
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| Helen Frankenthaler Nature Abhors a Vacuum, 1973 Acrylic on canvas, 103 x 112 inches |
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