Biography of helen frankenthaler quotes

Helen Frankenthaler (12 December1928 – 28 December2011) was an American post-painterly abstraction artist.

Born in New York City, her work was influenced by Jackson Pollock, with whom she also was involved in the 1946–1960 abstract art movement.

Quotes about Helen Frankenthaler

• We [ Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland ] were interested in Pollock but could gain no lead from him.

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  He was too personal. But Frankenthaler showed us a way – a way to think about and use, color.

  • Quote of Kenneth Noland, c. 1954, as cited in Abstract Art, Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 194
  • Noland is referring to their common visit in Frankenthaler's studio in 1953

• Critics have not unanimously praised Ms.

  Frankenthaler's art. Some have seen it as thin in substance, uncontrolled in method, too sweet in color and too 'poetic.' But it has been far more apt to garner admirers like the critic Barbara Rose, who wrote in 1972 of Ms. Frankenthaler's gift for 't