Helen frankenthaler

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…

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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.

Beginnings 2002

Helen Frankenthaler in the studio by Gordon Parks

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.

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.

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

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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LISTEN: Helen Frankenthaler, Let 'er Rip | Recording Artists Podcast, Getty Museum