Frankenthaler, Helen (1928- )
A member of the generation of painters who succeeded the Abstract Expressionists, Helen Frankenthaler is considered a major innovator in the technique of Colour-Field painting. Born in New York City, Frankenthaler's early art teachers included the Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo, at the Dalton School and Paul Feeley at Bennington College.
In 1950, she met the art critic Clement Greenberg, who introduced her to Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The experience of seeing Pollock at work in his studio stimulated a new concern with line. A major breakthrough in her work occurred in 1952 when she came up with a mixture of house paint, enamel, turpentine and oil, and spilled this from coffee cans on to unsized canvas. Mountains and the Sea, her first soaked" canvas, had a great impact on American painters, particularly her contemporaries Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, who adapted the technique to their own work.
Frankenthaler has been considered a transitional artist between Abstract Expressionism and Colour-Field painting. She was certainly the first American painter after Pollock to see the implications of colour - staining raw canvas to create a surface in which foreground and background cease to exist." |
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