12/28/11 REMEMBERING ARTIST HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011) "...Born 1928 in new york city, studied at the dalton school with mexican abstract painter rufino tamayo in new york city and attended university at bennington college in vermont where she studied with artist paul feeley, graduating in 1949 the first monumental exhibition of her career was in 1952 with the display of 'mountains and sea', a 7 x 10ft oil painting that seemed as if it were created as a watercolor piece. 'mountains and sea' introduced the use of turpentine-diluted oil-paint upon raw canvas, a technique known as 'staining', which is attributed to the color field school of painting of which frankenthaler was a founder as an abstract expressionist painter, frankenthaler was a major contributor to american post-war painting as well as one of the first artists to practice the color field school of painting. her large-scale canvases and easel-free technique were formed by gesture and dance, similar to the artistic process employed by abstract expressionist painter jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work emphasized the flat surface, interrogat ..." http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18325/helen-frankenthaler-1928-2011.html

REMEMBERING ARTIST HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011) "...Born 1928 in new york city, studied at the dalton school with mexican abstract painter rufino tamayo in new york city and attended university at bennington college in vermont where she studied with artist paul feeley, graduating in 1949 the first monumental exhibition of her career was in 1952 with the display of 'mountains and sea', a 7 x 10ft oil painting that seemed as if it were created as a watercolor piece. 'mountains and sea' introduced the use of turpentine-diluted oil-paint upon raw canvas, a technique known as 'staining', which is attributed to the color field school of painting of which frankenthaler was a founder as an abstract expressionist painter, frankenthaler was a major contributor to american post-war painting as well as one of the first artists to practice the color field school of painting. her large-scale canvases and easel-free technique were formed by gesture and dance, similar to the artistic process employed by abstract expressionist painter jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work jackson pollack. frankenthaler's work emphasized the flat surface, interrogat ..."
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