| Artist: | Frankenthaler, Helen |
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| Title: | The Bay | |
| Date: | 1963 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | post WWII, NY School | |
| Movement: | Color Field | |
| Materials: | acrylic paint on canvas | |
| Subject: a mapping of the landscape; not a scenic postcard view, but an abstraction; nature as felt rather than seen; watery subject matter reflects the soak-stain process. 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." | ||
