The work also includes drawing with charcoal, something the artist would abandon as she came to rely on paint alone to make shape. Frankenthaler developed and refined this technique in acrylic, which lent itself to pouring and drying more successfully than oil.

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, I’ve been testing colors on my interior. I joked the other day that someone will soon find me in the corner of a room, posed like Helen Frankenthaler.

(Photo below by the incredible Gordon Parks)

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- Mirabelle (1990) by Helen Frankenthaler

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, if you want even more goodness in your feed check out Helen Frankenthaler . 🙏

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Helen Frankenthaler at work, New York, 1969
Ernst Hass

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Helen Frankenthaler

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Voilà 4 women artists whose work deserves recognition. They toiled in the shadow of their male contemporaries. Everybody knows Frida Kahlo, have you heard of Helen Frankenthaler, Artemisia Gentileschi, Berthe Morisot & Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun?

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Works on paper: 2x Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler among the Ab Ex women in 9th St Club at (reminds me that I must read Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel)

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In 1953 Morris Louis visited the studio of Helen Frankenthaler, where he saw Mountains and Sea (1952), the first painting made with her signature “soak-stain” technique.

(Then he became famous/successful for riffing on it)

Thanks, for the shout out to https://t.co/f6PnScdh36

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Helen Frankenthaler, Dawn after the Storm, 1957

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Helen Frankenthaler

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