Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abstract Heart. With earlier recognition, Helen might also have claimed another distinction. Anybody can see that abstract art is very pretty and decorative. What many were slow to understand is how any painting which does not have recognizable figures or objects in it can have any relation to reality, feeling or soul. Admittedly, this quality of feeling is difficult to derive from the impersonal, sometimes almost machine-tooled canvases of Louis or Noland. It is certainly there, but hidden, just as men make it a point of honor not to cry and to keep a stiff upper...
Miracle and Myth. In the eyes of Motherwell, who admittedly is a fond partisan, there are three reasons for her new renown. The first is her own talents. "Helen is a miracle," he says, "in that her art is very complete and at the same time abstract-her work is full of people, animals, flowers, and so on-but very highly transformed, so that only a very sophisticated person can see it." The second has to do with the fact that she is a woman, and "the myth is that when a woman is an artist, she tends to become...
After half a dozen years in which galleries and museums were touting gimmicks and gadgetry of all kinds, there is a renewed appreciation of what is called painterly painting-painting in which the sensuous quality and texture of the paint-on-canvas is rewarding. Pop, op, mechanical art and the newest of the crowd, earthworks, are still there-but somehow they no longer have the appeal that they used...
...went on to progressive Bennington College in Vermont. The painting she contributed to a Bennington Alumni Art exhibition in a Manhattan art gallery in May 1950 was an amateurish pastiche of her Bennington teachers, Picasso and Art Students League. Clement Greenberg, who came to the opening, thought it was terrible, and told the artist so. Then, naturally, he had to invite her down to Greenwich Village for a drink...
...recalls as "a painting bath." Says she: "There wasn't a show we missed, whether of Pollock or Fantin-Latour. We checked catalogues. One check meant we liked it. Two checks was pretty good. Three was wow! This seems the opposite of that lofty beautiful experience that art is supposed to be. Every painting is supposed to be a valid expression and interesting. But the truth is some work and some don't. That happens with all painters in every...