Helen frankenthaler

Painter Helen Frankenthaler sitting amidst her art 1956 Photo Gordon Parks

Helen Frankenthaler works are on view at the Palazzo Strozzi, in the biggest outing of the abstract expressionist's work in Italy to date.

Helen Frankenthaler. Jacob's Ladder. 1957. Oil on canvas. 9' 5 3/8

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Monoprint VII, from the Monoprint, Monotype Series

Based in New York City, Helwaser Gallery specializes in Post-war and Contemporary art featuring seminal artists such as Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, and Yayoi Kusama. In January 2019, the gallery will re-open on the Upper East Side with a contemporary art program, featuring Anton Ginzburg, Boedi Widjaja, Christina Kruse, and Lin Yan. Helwaser Gallery has participated in the following art fairs: The Armory Show, Art Miami, Palm Beach Art Fair, The Salon Art…

today i’m inspired by the work of legendary abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler. her huge colourful paintings look like gigantic watercolours, but are in fact painted with oils & acrylics.

As a second generation Abstract Expressionist, Frankenthaler was strongly influenced by the work of Gorky, Pollack and de Kooning. Early in her career she developed the stain painting technique, which became a catalyst for a generation of color field painters. Although Frankenthaler's work is abstract, a strong suggestion of landscape is often apparent. Frankenthaler made her first prints in 1960, and she continued to use various print media in her exploration of pictorial space utilizing…

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Eminent among a second generation of postwar American abstract artists, Helen Frankenthaler’s invention of the soak-stain technique expanded abstract painting possibilities while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways.

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Helen Frankenthaler in the studio by Gordon Parks

Helen Frankenthaler standing up in her studio holding a pot of paint next to a painting

Loretta Howard Gallery specializes in classic Post War American art with an emphasis on artists who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. Gallery artists are associated with major movements of the period including Abstract Expressionism, Op Art, Minimalism and Color Field.

You will understand what the impact of colors is like when you look at the brilliant examples of color field paintings. Though this kind of art avoided the depiction of moving figures

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She invented staggering new ways to paint, but it was the men who followed her who got all the credit. Now this towering figure is finally getting her due

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September 15, 2021–April 18, 2022, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.