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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...
The painterly tradition derives from Pollock, De Kooning and Kline, and Frankenthaler can be called an heiress of it. She might also claim to be something of a pioneer. In 1952, when she was only 23, she developed her "stain technique" as an extension of Jackson Pollock's method...
"One way to learn how to make a painting work is to look and look-so that if you have an eye, you develop it. That's what we did," she recalls. "And every so often, we would go off with paintboxes and folding easels-not as camp, but...
Greenberg encouraged Helen in her habit of tearing up canvases that were too easy or familiar. His critical mark is best symbolized today not in the myriad lilting forms and colors that she puts upon her canvas, but in the ones she leaves out. Her work incorporates empty spaces that are often more forceful and outspoken than the painted ones. In The Human Edge, for example, the real Frankenthaler is to be found-not in the weighty banner forms that hang down from the top, but in the horizontal rectangle of white that lies beneath and behind them.The whole picture...
The Split. It was after a 1952 painting expedition to Nova Scotia that Frankenthaler painted Mountains and Sea, a wonderfully warm and gentle abstract landscape in which for the first time she developed the stain technique. She moved her canvas onto the floor and began to use her shoulder rather...