Kate Millett
American writer, educator, artist, and activist (1934-2017)
Helen Frankenthaler
American painter
Helen Frankenthalerwas an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting.
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Helen Frankenthalerwas an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as color field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock’s paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Frankenthaler had a home and studio in Darien, Connecticut.
9 Quotes by Helen Frankenthaler
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We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn’t, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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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 FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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I wanted things that I couldn’t at times articulate.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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A really good picture looks as if it’s happened at once. It’s an immediate image.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter
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The question of sex will take care of itself.
Helen FrankenthalerAmerican painter