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View all 141 artworks. Helen Frankenthaler lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of American Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- American
- December 12, 1928
- Manhattan, New York, United States
- December 27, 2011
Helen Frankenthaler (Nueva York, 12 de diciembre de 1928 - Darien, Connecticut, 27 de diciembre de 2011) fue una pintora expresionista abstracta estadounidense. Recibió la influencia de la obra de Jackson Pollock y de Clement Greenberg con quien también se vio involucrada en el Movimiento de Arte Abstracto de 1946-1960.
- American
- Manhattan, New York, United States
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. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ...
Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter and printmaker known for her unique method of staining canvas with thin veils of color. View Helen Frankenthaler’s 2,759 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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- Biography of Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler was among the most influential artists of the mid-20th century. Introduced early in her career to major artists such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline (and Robert Motherwell, whom she later married), Frankenthaler was influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting practices, but developed her own distinct approach to the style. ...
While creating Mountains and Sea (1952), Frankenthaler arrived at her innovative variant of Jackson Pollock'spouring technique, in which she likewise poured paints onto enormous canvases placed on...Frankenthaler's work influenced Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, who recognized works like Mountains and Sea as a mode of abstract painting that moved beyond Pollock's textured, psychologically fra...In another major departure from first-generation Abstract Expressionism, Frankenthaler was an abstract artist for whom the natural landscape - rather than the existential confrontation with the can...Frankenthaler applied her breakthrough soak-stain technique to other painterly media, most notably, watered-down acrylic, which she used in place of turpentine-thinned paint starting in the 1960s....Childhood
Helen Frankenthaler was born and raised in a wealthy Manhattan family with her two older sisters. Her parents recognized and fostered her artistic talent from a young age, sending her to progressive, experimental schools. The family took many trips in the summertime, and it was during these trips that Frankenthaler developed her love of the landscape, sea, and sky. Her father was a judge on the New York State Supreme Court and died of cancer when she was eleven years old. The loss affected he...
Early Training
At fifteen, Frankenthaler was sent to the Dalton School in New York and began to study under the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. By the time she was sixteen, she decided to become an artist, enrolling in Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied under Paul Feeley, who was fundamental in arranging exhibitions of Abstract Expressionists.
Mature Period
In 1948, Frankenthaler moved back to New York. Two years later, she met the prominent art critic Clement Greenberg (19 years her senior) at an exhibition she organized for Bennington alumnae. They began a romantic relationship that would last for several years, in that time Greenberg introduced her to several leading Abstract Expressionists artists, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. Greenberg also prompted Frankenthaler to study under Hans Hofmann in...
- American
- December 12, 1928
- New York, New York
- December 27, 2011
20 de dic. de 2023 · Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992 marks the first time that Frankenthaler’s paintings have been exhibited in Venice since her inclusion in the 1966 Biennale as part of the US Pavilion.
Abstract painting. Notable work. Mountains and Sea. Movement. Abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction. 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.
