Gm! Saturday spotlight is back! Today, Helen Frankenthaler, an incredibly inspiring abstract expressionist painter 🎨

“Paintings have their beautiful working order just as nature itself has. Paintings don’t lie. They must stand as truth on their own, projections of the artist”

2 19

Helen Frankenthaler's ‘Spring run’ monoprint series from 1996, was printed onto proofs from ‘Flirting with Stone’ 1990. She was a notorious proofer, always finely tuning matrices, ink methods and colour combinations creating many proofs

3 8

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."

Helen Frankenthaler


day 6
"F"

11 20

Today I toured ’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art around ’s Helen Frankenthaler exhibition. Such joy to share my research on Frankenthaler with the group and rigorously discuss her practice 🌿

1 11

Relazione tattile e gestuale con la materia cromatica.

Helen Frankenthaler spatolava la vernice o la distribuiva con grossi pennelli lavorando sopra il rotolo di tela sul pavimento. 

a

10 12

‘Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty’, at Dulwich Picture Gallery. A mesmerising show, full of Images that are both haunting and healing…. After two years of barely visiting galleries, this was an absolute joy

3 16

Newfoundland - Helen Frankenthaler

0 5

When studying different art movements, Juliana Vido became exasperated by the focus on male artists. This was the spur for her series of illustrations honouring female artists in their studios...

https://t.co/zMIq5QAMau

Sonia Delaunay • Helen Frankenthaler

5 23