(1928-2011)
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Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928 in New York.
She studied art with the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo at the Dalton school, before joining Bennington College in 1946, where she received instruction from the painter Paul Feeley, who taught her "everything she knows about the cubism ”, a pictorial movement that has long been. It was at Bennington College that she met the critic Clement Greenberg in 1950. The latter introduced him to David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline.
In 1952, she exhibited the painting that made famous: Mountains and Sea. Her influences were Jackson Pollock, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Rufino Tamayo, as well as Clement Greenberg himself. She imposes herself within the pictorial avant-garde dominated by male stars.
His abstract painting assimilates it to the movement of abstract expressionism and to that more specific to Colorfield painting. Helen Frankenthaler works on the same floor and, using a technique developed by Jackson Pollock, goes directly to pigments and painting on canvas.
She was notably married to the painter Robert Motherwell for around ten years.
In 1989, it was the subject of a large retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
She died on December 27, 2011 from a long illness.
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