Sunday, May 1, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler

Buzzards Bay, 1959
Oil on canvas



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. 
Courtesy of The Seattle Art Museum...

2 comments:

Whitney-Anne Baker said...

She's someone I've admired for years who is too often overlooked because of her male comteporaries. Thanks for sharing this.

A Perfect Gray said...

those are wonderful

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