Yesterday, December 27, after a long illness at the '83 passed away artist Helen Frankentaler - a significant representative of the American abstract expressionists

Helen Frankentaler in his studio. 1960
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Yesterday, December 27, after a long illness at the '83 passed away artist Helen Frankentaler (Helen Frankenthaler) - one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Heir to the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Helen with brilliant ingenuity and exceptional grace transformed his canvases in the space of artistic gesture. Frankentaler considered an outstanding representative of the second wave of postwar American art, she has played a key role in the transition from abstract expressionism in painting the color field. The artist was one of the finest colorists today, its creative contribution to modern art was considerable.

Helen was born December 12, 1928 senior judge in the family of Alfred and his wife Frankentalera Martha. Childhood the future artist was held in New York, she studied at the School of Dalton, where the basics of the fine arts taught her Rufino Tamayo. In 1949, Helen graduated from Beningtonsky art college, where her teacher was Paul Feely (Paul Feeley), and then took lessons from abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman (Hans Hofmann).

Show career Frankentaler counted from 1950, when Adolph Gottlieb (Adolph Gottlieb) chose her painting "The Beach" (1950) for an exposition entitled "Fifteen selected works of unknown Artists Kootz Gallery ». The first solo exhibition, Helen was awarded in 1951 in New York's Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and in the same year she participated in a landmark project," 9th Street: Exhibition of paintings and sculpture. "honored art critic Clement Greenberg ( Clement Greenberg) once said her original style, international fame works Frankentaler began to grow. Since 1959 the artist became a permanent member of the main major international exhibitions, and in 1960 was her first museum retrospective - the Jewish Museum in New York.

In 1952, Helen wrote one of the key breakthrough work in the history of American abstract art - painting "Mountains and Sea." She has adopted a brand new painting technique: on the canvas, lying on the floor Workshop, an artist, going around on canvas circle, pour paint, diluted to such an extent that it is immediately soaked in a rude, not primed canvas (unlike, say, Jackson Pollock, whose canvases pre-processed). The result is obtained Frankentaler translucent color fields, flowing into each other. Work "Mountains and Sea" was instantly take note of the artists who created the school of painting in the color field, such as Morris Louis (Morris Louis) and Kenneth Noland (Kenneth Noland). Subsequently, creativity Frankentaler was an important factor in the development of American painting.

< p class = "mat1"> Throughout his long career, which lasted for six decades, constantly experimenting and Frankentaler, in addition to unique works on canvas and paper, dabbled in other genres, including ceramics, sculpture, tapestries, and especially in the lottery the chart. Helen was one of the most important participants of the "renaissance of graphics lottery", which occurred among American abstract painters in the mid-twentieth century, particularly famous for her engravings on wood. Frankentaler creative exploration served as the theme of a huge number of personal museum exhibitions: a retrospective at the Jewish Museum (1960, New York York) exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and European tour, her works in 1969, a traveling exhibition of her works on paper of the Guggenheim Museum in 1985, projects at the MoMA and the Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth (Texas) in 1989, the exhibition charts the lottery in Washington National Gallery of Art 1993 and many others.

addition to the huge amount of scientific essays and articles by renowned art historians, curators and critics of the legacy of the artist, and published three fundamental labor book Barbara Rose ( 1971) and John Elderfilda (1989), as well as the catalog of graphics-Raisonné 1961-1994 Circulation's (1996).

her works are in collections of major museums in the world, including the Art Institute in Chicago, LACMA, the Metropolitan Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, SFMOMA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Museum Whitney.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

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