| Artist: | Frankenthaler, Helen |
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| Title: | Photos of Frankenthaler painting | |
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| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | post WWII, NY School | |
| Movement: | Color Field | |
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| Process: the "soak-stain" method, which she originated in 1951 after seeing a Pollock exhibit; works the pigment right into the canvas fiber so her image achieves a wholistic oneness; early works are in oil; during the 60's she switches to acrylics to achieve a more expansive operatic, all-over vision. Style: acrylic "soak-stain" method; paints first, then crops, finally titles the work according to the imagery that the painting process suggested; large, biomorphic color forms stained into the canvas surface to create that all-over, wholistic effect; always leaves breathing space (oxygen). Context: nature subjectified according to the artist's emotional filtering' recalls Georgia O'Keeffe; nature seen through a temperament; more romantic than heroic; expression of the "Sublime." | ||
