Friday, May 7, 2010

10.359 HELEN FRANKENTHALER

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  1. AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESIONIST PAINTER. SHE WAS INCLUDED IN THE 1964 POST-PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION EXHIBITION CURATED BY CLEMENT GREENBERG THAT INTRODUCED A NEWER GENERATION OF ABSTRACT PAINTING THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS COLOR FIELD.
    SHE WAS INFLUENCED BY HANS HOFMANN, JACKSON POLLOCK'S PAINTINGS AND BY CLEMENT GREENBERG. HER WORK HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF SEVERAL RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS; INCLUDING A 1989 RETROSPECTIVE AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN NEW
    YORK CITY.

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