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Helen Frankenthaler in her quotes - the woman-artist on her soak-painting art and life in the United States - free art-resource for students, pupils and teachers in American art history

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Helen Frankenthaler’s quotes informs us about her position in American Abstract Expressionism of the 2nd generation - and her artistic life as woman-artist in the 1950’s in the U.S… She described her flat ‘soak’ painting technique she started intuitively to let the paint enter the canvas completely: soak! She wrote about the artist Jackson Pollock who meant a great inspiration for her art. Some years later it was Frankenthaler who influenced younger painter-artists in the U.S. as Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.
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Some selected artist-quotes of American artist Helen Frankenthaler - as a short introduction of her extended quotes in the PDF:

  • ’Total abstraction was something intellectual to me. I didn’t feel it; I could talk about Mondrian but it didn’t occur to me to do it. (c. 1950)… …I would go to the old Guggenheim to look at Kandinsky. I liked the early abstractions but the later ones (of Kandinsky) I didn’t like at all…’ - quote of Frankenthaler, in an interview with Geldzahler; ‘Artforum’ 4. no. Oct. 1965

  • ’…I think the thing that hit me most of all (at the Pollock-show, 1951) was that while I knew it was a fact, it became a physical necessity to get pictures off the easel, and therefore for me not even on a wall but the reach or fluidity of working from above down into a field [so: on the floor]…’ - quote of Frankenthaler, in: ‘Interview with American art-critic Barbara Rose’, Archives - American Art, 1968

  • ’Well, I think it (painting) is a life measuring stick. And I’m concerned with being myself, getting to know more and more what that is, what is possible, and what the real meaning of beauty and development is. I’m concerned with development and growth. But I am in my everyday life. I hate to feel deadly…’ - her quote in: ‘Interview with Barbara Rose’, 1968
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