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  Helen Frankenthaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist.
Born in New York City, her work is influenced by Jackson Pollock, with whom she also was involved in the 1946-1960 Abstract Art Movement.
(1880-1966 was the catalyst of the Abstract Expressionist movement) The first Pollock show Frankenthaler saw was at the Betty Parson's Gallery in 1951.
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 Greg Kucera Gallery | Seattle
One of Frankenthaler's favored techniques, staining the canvas with the pigment and allowing the different layers to show through, has become a quintessential characteristic of Abstract Expressionism in general, and her work in particular.
Helen Frankenthaler was not heavily influenced by any one culture or heritage, despite her strong family background in Germanic and Jewish culture.
Frankenthaler is one of the foremost practitioners of the Abstract Expressionist style of painting.
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 Helen Frankenthaler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
An American Abstract Expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler was born December 12, 1928 in New York City, New York as the youngest child of a New York Supreme Court justice.
As Whitney Chadwick said of Frankenthaler, "She was not the first artist to stain canvases but she was the firsy to develop a complete formal vocabulary from the technique." Her techniques influenced other artists, especially Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.
Frankenthaler is significant to the 1950s because of her contributions to Abstract Expressionism.
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 AllRefer.com - Helen Frankenthaler (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Helen Frankenthaler[frangk´untholur] Pronunciation Key, 1928–;, American painter, b.
A painter of the abstract expressionist school (see abstract expressionism), Frankenthaler was greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock, with whom she studied.
In the early 1950s she developed a technique for staining unprimed canvases with color that was later to influence the color-field painters (see color-field painting).
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 Frankenthaler special
Each is based upon a painting Frankenthaler executed at about the same time and each is produced under her supervision and hand-signed by her.
Originally scheduled for release in July, it was delayed as Frankenthaler added several additional scrrens to the print to achieve the coloristic effects she wanted.
Frankenthaler screenprints tend to sell for about the same amount as her lithographs (prices run from about $3500 to $10, 000 depending upon size and complexity; the Lincoln Center prints are quite large and very complex).
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 eric gelber on helen frankenthaler at knoedler & company
Helen Frankenthaler is still guiltlessly making beautiful pictures, even though her work has been dismissed, since the days of Harold Rosenberg, as mere interior decoration.
Frankenthaler rejects the title bestowed upon her in the art history books, "The Founder of the Color-Field School," and aligns herself with first generation New York School artists, such as Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko.
Frankenthaler is inspired by the transient effects of light.
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 NMWA | Private Collection | Profile - Helen Frankenthaler
The American painter Helen Frankenthaler is a second-generation abstract expressionist widely considered "the country's most prominent living female artist." A New York City native, Frankenthaler was graduated from the Dalton School, where she studied with the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.
In 1950 Frankenthaler encountered the influential art critic Clement Greenberg, through whom she met the major figures in New York's avant-garde art world.
Inspired by an exhibition of paintings by Jackson Pollock, Frankenthaler began the experiments that culminated in her stain paintings: large-scale abstractions with thin washes of pigment, reminiscent of watercolors.
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 Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Helen Frankenthaler studied at Bennington College in Vermont under abstract artist Hans Hoffman and Rufino Tamayo.
It was in the period of her artistic development that she developed her technique of applying thin, diluted paint to a plain canvas to acheieve the effect of her other medium, watercolors.
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 — 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater.
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 Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler is one of the most important living American artists.
One of the early abstract expressionists, she was also a pioneer (along with Jules Olitski and Morris Louis) in the development of color-field painting.
In addition to her achievements as a painter, she is also a major printmaker, whose works have been featured in many shows, including a print retrospective at the National Gallery of Art (memorialized in a catalogue published by the National Gallery) and was recently the subject of an important catalogue raisonné of her prints.
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 Frankenthaler, Helen on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
FRANKENTHALER, HELEN [Frankenthaler, Helen], 1928-, American painter, b.
A love of spontaneous gesture; the lyrical color-fields of Helen Frankenthaler are surveyed in a new show.
With her greatest works on display, Helen Frankenthaler paints a quirky portrait of the artist.
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Helen Frankenthaler was born in New York City.
Two major aspects of Frankenthaler's work are her contribution to modernism and her allusion to naturalism.
In Viewpoint II, painted almost thirty years after her breakthroughs in abstraction, there is an indication or suggestion of landscape; a beach and sky represented through the horizontal division of the picture Plane, the warm arrays and the saturated atmosphere.
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 Helen Frankenthaler Online
Helen Frankenthaler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. University Art Museum, Albany, New York
A Love of Spontaneous Gesture: The lyrical color-fields of Helen Frankenthaler are surveyed in a new show, article by Robert Hughes
All images and text on this Helen Frankenthaler page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Frankenthaler, Helen - Cheap Posters and Wallpapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Helen Frankenthaler has done a very nice job.
Helen Frankenthaler - Chairman of the board, 1971
Helen Frankenthaler - Ocean drive west #1, 1974
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 Haber's Art Reviews: Paul Signac and Helen Frankenthaler
Indeed, a new series by Helen Frankenthaler returns to Signac's seaside vistas and intensity of color.
Helen Frankenthaler heads back at once to Signac's sandbar and J. Turner's mist.
Frankenthaler barely hints at its presence, but it anchors her best paintings in years.
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 Helen Frankenthaler-About the Artist-Meyerovich Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Born in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler was only 23 when Clement Greenberg introduced her work to New York's Abstract Expressionist painters.
Her breakthrough painting Mountains and Sea (1952) served as an immediate catalyst for the Color Field painting of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland and marked the origin of her groundbreaking work in Color Staining.
Her paintings and prints have been shown in major exhibitions around the world and she has been honored with numerous retrospectives, including "Helen Frankenthaler: A Paintings Retrospective" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989 and "Helen Frankenthaler: Prints" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 1993.
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 Helen Frankenthaler --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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 Helen Frankenthaler
Born in New York in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler first studied with Rufino Tamayo at the Dalton School.
At Bennington College, Vermont, 1945-49, she received a disciplined grounding in Cubism from Paul Feeley, though her own instincts lay closer to the linear freedom of Arshile Gorky and the color improvisations of Wassily Kandinsky's early work.
Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984, by Karen Wilkin.
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 Helen Frankenthaler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
An American Abstract Expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler was born December 12, 1928 in New York City, New York, U.S.A. as the youngest child of a New York Supreme Court justice.
She attended private schools in New York City, then went to Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, where she studied art with the Cubist painter Paul Feeley before graduating in 1949.
Frankenthaler's fame spread as shows of her work in New York, other American cities, and in Europe became well-received.
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 HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Frankenthaler is best known for changing the direction of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s when she began pouring cans of paint directly onto unsized, unstretched canvas.
Madame Matisse is an example of how acrylic paint improved Frankenthaler's technique.
Regarding the women's movement, Frankenthaler once said in an interview: "...the question of sex will take care of itself." However, Frankenthaler did speak at the 1971 Conference of Women in the Visual Arts, which was held in protest of the exclusion of women from the Corcoran Gallery's 1971 biennial show.
www.albany.edu /museum/wwwmuseum/crossing/artist10.htm   (125 words)

  
 HELEN FRANKENTHALER--BIBLIOGRAPHY
< Carmean, E.A. Helen Frankenthaler, A Painting Retrospective.
"Helen Frankenthaler, from innocent impulse to glamorous grandeur", C (Toronto 1987).
Peters, Gerald P. Helen Frankenthaler: Santa Fe Series-Pastels and Other Works on Paper.
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Helen Frankenthaler 1960 photo by Ernst Haas Postcard
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Helen Frankenthaler "What Red Lines Can Do" Signed AP
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 Helen Frankenthaler Art Prints and Helen Frankenthaler Posters
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 Helen Frankenthaler artist and art...the-artists.org
Information on the life, background and work of Helen Frankenthaler
Personal data and representives, education, signature, exhibition history, auction results and upcoming auctions of Helen Frankenthaler.
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 Gihon Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Light makes a powerful statement in Helen Frankenthaler's "White Makes Four".
Frankenthaler pours stain-thin oils onto untreated canvas and guides them to create this light-filled abstract canvas.
Born in new York; recognized as one of America's most important painters.
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 Helen Frankenthaler
Associated with the Abstract Expressionists, partly because of her marriage to Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler's work is usually inspired by landscapes, and is not purely abstract.
She developed a technique of staining an unprimed canvas, which absorbs the paint creating a transparency and sense of unity.
Her techniques influenced such artists as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
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 ARTBURST.com - Helen Frankenthaler Art Pictures & Biography
Helen Frankenthaler is one of the foremost practitioners of the Abstract Expressionist style of painting.
Highly influenced by Jackson Pollock, she changed her entire method of painting after watching him lay his unstretched canvases on the floor.
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Helen Frankenthaler Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Helen Frankenthaler Shirle Gottlieb Tales of Genji series
Artist Profiles Helen Frankenthaler National Museum of Women in the Arts
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 Amazon.co.uk: Helen Frankenthaler: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Helen Frankenthaler, an early pioneer of the stained-canvas method, has produced a body of paintings, sculpture and prints whose impact on contemporary art has been significant.
This study of the artist's career offers an analysis of the year-by-year evolution of her art.
Subjects > Art, Architecture & Photography > Artists, A-Z > F > Frankenthaler, Helen
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